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Stagecoach and Nexus in war of words over PTE’s QC plans

BUSES

Andrew Forster
09 November 2012
 

STAGECOACH has accused Nexus of using flawed analysis  in its case for introducing bus Quality Contracts across Tyne and Wear.

The operator makes the comment in response to Nexus’s informal consultation on plans for a Quality Contract Scheme, which would see the conurbation split up into 22 separate QCs.

In a letter to the PTE, Stagecoach’s legal adviser, Herbert Smith Freehills, says the benefits of QCs are “unrealistic and overstated” and that the plan would have...

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