(2 hours ago)Superman wrote Only one of those parties ended the agreement by the sounds of it.True - but why has NECA not been positively engaging with all parties concerned to prevent this from happening?
As soon as that notice was served, competition law immediately takes over and prevents any discussions of that kind.
Fingers arguably can only point to one organisation of the three involved.
And I don't get how the timetables are still quite closely aligned.
Only losers are going to be the public unfortunately.
I'm still very surprised Arriva haven't taken advantage of BSIP like GNE & Stagecoach did for the 56, 21 and 1.....unless they're waiting for more new buses to turn up to prevent a s***show at the detriment of the wider operation perhaps.