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RE: Limos North West

(27/01/2016 20:27)Dentonian Wrote:  I assume its only because of NW's own behaviour (including refusing to stock other Operator's Bus Timetables), that their Lawyer's have decided not to pursue claims of "passing off" against GHA and now this company.

It's Warrington Council's responsibility to ensure bus timetables are made available at places such as Libraries and kept up-to-date with all services at bus stops. Nothing to do with Network Warrington. One thing that's not good is on WBC's website the bus timetable link just goes to NW's website with no links to timetables operated by other operators, not even any that operate in Warrington not in direct competition with NW routes.

With regards to GHA and red buses I imagine GHA will argue the Wright Renowns were red when they acquired them and they did add their own name to them before they went for a full repaint. Also that they are using a red livery for their premier routes in Cheshire generally - the 88 and 42 buses have similar liveries to the Metrocities despite not going near Warrington. Whether the decision to create a red livery for the 'GHA Gold' routes related to their ambition to start services in Warrington is a different matter.

The red on the front of the GHA Gold buses also looks very similar to D&G red. Without the looking at the destination displays I doubt most people in Knutsford would be able to tell whether a D&G Wright Streetlite is approaching the bus stop or a GHA Enviro 200 and as for when D&G occasionally use Enviro 200s on the 300 route....