I wish you wouldn't make me leave here... I poured it on and I poured it out
It is often the case, large operators are complacent with profitable sectors which had no competition. The services between Huddersfield and Bradford a classic example years ago. Blue bus operated competing X6 journeys using Leyland Tigers for a while. By chance.. new buses and extra cleaning was introduced by the established operator shortly afterwards. Franchising will mean operators meet a certain standard with no incentive to excel. In many areas what they do now commercially, they will be paid to do in the future, no more no less. I always remember 7119 as a Huddersfield bus, but it was actually a Halifax bus in its younger days. This vehicle carried the Bus and Coach Council's 'We'd All Miss the Bus' campaign scheme in the eighties...a campaign that was against the new transport act which brought deregulation in 1986. What comes around goes around..
I wish you wouldn't make me leave here... I poured it on and I poured it out
It is often the case, large operators are complacent with profitable sectors which had no competition. The services between Huddersfield and Bradford a classic example years ago. Blue bus operated competing X6 journeys using Leyland Tigers for a while. By chance.. new buses and extra cleaning was introduced by the established operator shortly afterwards. Franchising will mean operators meet a certain standard with no incentive to excel. In many areas what they do now commercially, they will be paid to do in the future, no more no less. I always remember 7119 as a Huddersfield bus, but it was actually a Halifax bus in its younger days. This vehicle carried the Bus and Coach Council's 'We'd All Miss the Bus' campaign scheme in the eighties...a campaign that was against the new transport act which brought deregulation in 1986. What comes around goes around..