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Merseytravel acts as the responsible authority for the planning and commissioning of local bus services in Liverpool and throughout the wider Merseyside area. [4] Currently, Arriva and Stagecoach provide the vast majority of local bus services within the city, with a number of smaller operators providing specific routes where there is a defined public need. [5]
In 1996, British Bus was bought by the Cowie Group. [7] [8] In November 1997 Cowie was rebranded as Arriva with North Western becoming Arriva North West in 1998. In February 2000, Arriva North West purchased MTL Trust Holdings, which created a larger presence in the Merseyside area and more than doubled the size of the company.
Hughes DAF was rebranded to Arriva Bus & Coach in 1998 and is now the main dealer for Temsa and Van Hool. [166] coaches in the UK as well as more recently Ilesbus. [167] In June 2020, it was announced the company would restructure to significantly downsize. [164] During January 2021, it was announced Arriva Bus & Coach would close on 31 March 2021.
Arriva North West and Wales was a division of Arriva that operated bus services around North West England and Wales.It was made up from several previous bus operators, including North Western (in Merseyside, Cheshire and Lancashire), most of MTL North (formerly Merseybus), the Bee Line Buzz Company (in Greater Manchester), and most of what was once Crosville Motor Services (in Cheshire and Wales).
ArrivaClick is a demand responsive transport service operated by Arriva UK Bus. Passengers book and pay for journeys via a smartphone app, [ 2 ] which then matches passengers traveling between similar points, calculating an ad hoc route to the destinations required.
As of September 2024, the two largest bus operators within the boundaries of the Liverpool City Region are Arriva Merseyside, who purchased MTL Trust Holdings in 2000, and Stagecoach Merseyside and South Lancashire, who purchased Gillmoss-based Glenvale Transport in 2005. A small number of independently-owned bus operators, such as Aintree ...
Merseybus was a bus operator running bus and coach services predominantly in and around Merseyside, England.Based at Edge Lane, Liverpool, Merseybus was formed as an "arm's length" operation of the Merseyside Passenger Transport Executive (Merseyside PTE) out of its bus operations following bus deregulation in Great Britain and was later sold to Merseybus management and staff in a £5.9 ...
From 1969 until 1986, the Merseyside Passenger Transport Executive (PTE) operated a large proportion of bus services on Merseyside under the Merseyside Transport brand. The PTE took over the provision of bus services in Liverpool, Birkenhead and Wallasey from their respective local authorities in 1970, and the bus services provided by St Helens ...