(16 Oct 2024, 3:43 pm)markydh wrote That’s not how government funding works. They can’t just transfer buses to a completely different area without the express permission of central government. It’s not even in the same mayoral authority!
I know speaking last year to somebody who was clued up on the legalities of the bids, they had told me that there was very strict rules about how the buses could be used for a certain number of years. We were talking Arriva, and they were saying they'd have to ensure that they were run on the services funded for a certain percentage of their time. If that is the case, I don't see how Stagecoach could get away with not just using them on different routes, nevermind in different depots in different counties.