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Look at my post is what I am saying it explains how tenders work

Look at my post regards tenders, you make assumptions which are not necessarily accurate unless you have seen the tender

The information is that gcb is driver covered at this point. Yes I am a glass half full person and I know Go Ahead group and it is run totally differently to firstgroup and it has been sucessful so far. As for pcb here in Plymouth and South East Cornwall it is valued by the population and has...

Richard nobody has called the first drivers bad. They have stayed with first because first have said no redundancies, some have been with first for years and won't be bothered to move if they have a limited time to go tty p retirement, there are many reasons. Yes initially drivers will be...

At least Sugar Loaf is being renewed and kept open. Some may recall New Hadley on the Wolverhampton to Shrewsbury line which needed renovation British Rail days, it was deemed uneconomic to repair and was closed. Good old British Rail eh

Well no you actually don't understand the system. The tendering authority puts out a tender specifying the service, standards required and other relevant parts of the contract (in the case of stagecoach for rail pensions). The company tendering must submit a compliant bid to remain in...

I live in Plymouth and see pcb operations daily and I don't recognise the fact that kernow is a better operator. First are an operator of high cost and actually they do have staffing issues which involve turnover of drivers and some with attitudes. The issue with first us that outside the t and...

There are a few things different, route 176, the Newquay to Redruth. Add additional journies on Sunday on the 27 earlier and later Sunday journeys on the 24 need I go on. Like first kernow I expect the commercial journeys to cone later from gcb. I doubt if there will b e any further new...

I think you forget one important point about the tenders. The tenders are based on replacing what Cornwall Council wants covered versus what companies like first kernow say they will operate and can operate commercially. So first had ample opportunity to register commercial routes in addition...

Given first kernow facebook and twitter page it does not always happen and maybe that may not always it might be more often that no replacement can be found. Unfortunately while one might think new buses see the answer, they are not as I note from kernow, natex wm and Brighton and Hove. In...

Yes every operator does have breakdowns, pcb has an urban area, at the moment with high frequency whereas kernow is low frequency, makes a difference if you are not replacing the bus, broken down.

The very last thing GCB needs to do is sub contract back to First Kernow. They are sub contracting to Ots and Summercourt as, we know but First Kernow have breakdowns daily and in any event I am sure GCB will have everything under control. On Go Ahead, East Anglia it is a small operation...

To say Plymouth is not in the first league of Go Ahead companies us incredible. Firstly, Pcb have achieved an invesgors in people award, been named in the bus awards as bus company of the award, so to say that is just not true. Since Go Ahead purchased Pcb the investment and improvements have...

What you have to look at is if the conflicting journies are subsidised, that means the timings must be within a certain tolerance. On the A5 the PCB service is hourly Monday to Fridays, Two Hourly Saturday and Sunday BUT Hourly to Newquay Airport- First Kernow is every 90 minutes when...