Letters to the editor: Issue 572 3 Jun 2011
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Buses / Coaches / FTR, All of UK
Competition body has failed to ask what bus passengers want
Peter Huntley says the Competition Commission displays ‘reverse logic’ in advocating bus Quality ContractsPeter Huntley - Managing director, Go North East, Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, NE8
It was with mounting concern that I read the Competition Commission report on the bus industry. Following the logic of its analysis, Brighton (with little sustained competition) is a ‘failure’ whilst Paisley (persistent competition and many new entrants) is the model of success. Can there be a single bus passenger in the UK who would agree with the Commission’s conclusion?
Like many organisations without any ‘real world’ context the Competition Commission places...
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Your Comments:
29 Jul 2011
Yes!! - I agree some of these reports seem in a world of their own