(14 Sep 2016, 8:53 am)GuyParkRoyal wrote The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) provisional report into the Arriva Northern Franchise makes interesting reading. CMA have raised concerns in relation to the overlap of some Arriva Bus operations with the rail franchise.
Quite a large document so for those that don't want to read it all the pages relating to North East Bus Services are 133, 142 & 146.
I read intently (dying to know what the redacted info is) up to a point and then gave up, skimming accordingly.
There are lots of interesting comments and some areas/routes (I may have missed when reading) where trains compete with bus, that seem to be missed out of the anlysis. X66/X67 - filtered? York-Selby services on bus and rail along with train services between York and Leeds.