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Nicholas Lewis

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Interesting the Dept of Transport have issued and information notice to seek a direct award from 1 March 22 for period of 24 to 60 months. It lists all the routes to be operated and looks like they are in no rush to make any changes.
 
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24 months extendable upto 5 years.

Buys them time to continue with direct operation until a replacement system is created.
 

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Buys them time to continue with direct operation until a replacement system is created.
True, but replacing the franchise system seemed an extremely slow process at the best of times, long before Covid’s discovery, so just sounds like a continuation of business as usual.
 
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Standstill for five years then.

However interestingly it mentions Barton and Humber to Cleethorpes - I thought that was going to EMR?
 

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Interesting the Dept of Transport have issued and information notice to seek a direct award from 1 March 22 for period of 24 to 60 months. It lists all the routes to be operated and looks like they are in no rush to make any changes.
That’s because these are the current routes operated which they are committing to operate. Changes in the future can still be made when bidding for paths.
 
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