I’m all in favour giving the secured contracts to independents rather than the daytime operator, why should the taxpayer pay for the same bus company to operate the evening service etc.. while there operate the daytime service commercially, what happened a few years ago when northern said that there will start operating some secured services commercially again. (probably because there didn’t want another big operator to run them secured) didn’t GNE started to take on some east Durham network commercially as Arriva were one step away of winning the contracts?

I wonder how much incentives and grants did northern get from the government to purchase adl’s and streetdecks


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(08 May 2021, 11:00 am)mb134 wrote Even this is ridiculous. Vehicle and staff shortages are directly the fault of the company. Don't apply for contracts which you don't have the assets to operate, and provide a better work environment so your staff stay/new ones join.

Didn’t Northern win some contracts and contracted them out to independent operators?

There’s to many negatives on here towards GCT, whining about it on this forum isn’t going to solve the problem


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