Volvo B7TL/Wright Geminis 4015-23

[Tony]

Just typical Arriva they have a good route and seem to have good loading but ruin it by hiking up fares so high thw Walsalls had a torrid rise compared with the others bet the fares would not have gone up if they had competition on the Walsall-Cannock

The problem is that route doesn't make money charging NXWM type fares. The reason NXWM dropped the 351 is because it made a loss. They tried running it with old metrobuses with very little depreciation costs, and then by using old solos which also had lower fuel costs, but it still didn't work.

Arriva were always going to have to up fares if the route was going to survive.

[Bob]

They put the prices up on the 1 too, does that run at a loss? at one time cannock was a really important place for nxwm. Do the peak time X51s make anything at the Cannock end? i dont know why they keep on a stupid o'clock 3 times a day crappy relic from the past?