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2002_03_21 P429GLS
Rider York's (later First York's) 1995 five year contract to run York's Park and Ride services was re-tendered ready for continuation of the services from 2000. First York was selected as the preferred bidder but protracted negotiations followed, to achieve an outcome acceptable to both parties. It is likely that the Council's ambitions were beyond its means and it took some hard bargaining to find the optimum compromise. The new contract terms were eventually agreed to commence in 2002, with the 1995 contract being extended, under emergency provisions in the Tendering Regulations, in the interim. This probably provided a stay of execution for the Park and Ride Wright bodied Scanias, as new Wright bodied Volvos followed confirmation of the new contract award. This March 2002 picture of P429GLS, in York's Station Avenue as the bus headed for Tower Street on the Askham Bar service, was therefore taken near the end of these buses involvement in York's Park and Ride operation. After replacement, they were soon dispersed for further use with other First York companies.
Notice that the original messages to following drivers, extolling the virtues of the service, on the bus rear had been replaced by an advert. Moreover, the advert was an heretical one for a car - ironic, considering this bus and its fellows had been working hard to keep cars out of York City Centre for the previous seven years!!
2002_03_21 P429GLS
Rider York's (later First York's) 1995 five year contract to run York's Park and Ride services was re-tendered ready for continuation of the services from 2000. First York was selected as the preferred bidder but protracted negotiations followed, to achieve an outcome acceptable to both parties. It is likely that the Council's ambitions were beyond its means and it took some hard bargaining to find the optimum compromise. The new contract terms were eventually agreed to commence in 2002, with the 1995 contract being extended, under emergency provisions in the Tendering Regulations, in the interim. This probably provided a stay of execution for the Park and Ride Wright bodied Scanias, as new Wright bodied Volvos followed confirmation of the new contract award. This March 2002 picture of P429GLS, in York's Station Avenue as the bus headed for Tower Street on the Askham Bar service, was therefore taken near the end of these buses involvement in York's Park and Ride operation. After replacement, they were soon dispersed for further use with other First York companies.
Notice that the original messages to following drivers, extolling the virtues of the service, on the bus rear had been replaced by an advert. Moreover, the advert was an heretical one for a car - ironic, considering this bus and its fellows had been working hard to keep cars out of York City Centre for the previous seven years!!