(15 Jun 2024, 7:25 pm)Storx wrote There's a legal obligation to accept the lowest bid, they can't just pick and choose, it's how tendering works. Right or wrong.
If I was Stagecoach I'd be binning it too, it's not worth the hassle for Saturdays and Sundays for the next 8 months or whatever it is. Be interesting to know if they bid - at all. Looking at tracking today it appears they've outright refused to run anything through the tunnel at all, for most the day.
I’m inclined to suggest they likely did bid, but at a price which reflected the utter travesty that the Tyne Tunnel has become on weekends, and the increased man management associated with the contract.
I think we will find Nexus have preempted problems on weekends and the timetable will reflect that, but I do still worry about potential reliability issues on the 9 (as it wasn’t great last time it ran to North Shields!)
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