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Post by Deleted on Dec 15, 2012 21:25:12 GMT
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Post by ServerKing on Dec 21, 2012 1:29:48 GMT
Oh dear... Arriva are having a rotten time with this one... I hope they can sort it out, but I think it's a culture shock and these workshy drivers don't want to be organised... I read about this is the latest Buses mag... Unless the Maltese authorities want to put everything back to how it was before Arriva were on the scene...  |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 21, 2012 18:20:08 GMT
I felt sorry for the Maltese people that they lose their own traditional buses to Arriva.
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Post by ServerKing on Dec 21, 2012 20:49:26 GMT
I felt sorry for the Maltese people that they lose their own traditional buses to Arriva. It was nice to see one of the ex-Malta buses being used by Lloyds TSB for London2012  they do have character, though I dont know if the whole take-over-an-entire-country's-bus-routes venture just was a little rushed without knowing the setup and background... I don't know if before the drivers were owner-drivers and it was more like they as individuals provided tendered bus routes and services on behalf of the Maltese authorities... if so then that established way of life ending overnight and then working in a different set-up, I could see why there would be these problems  |
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Post by snoggle on Dec 22, 2012 19:07:28 GMT
I felt sorry for the Maltese people that they lose their own traditional buses to Arriva. It was nice to see one of the ex-Malta buses being used by Lloyds TSB for London2012 they do have character, though I dont know if the whole take-over-an-entire-country's-bus-routes venture just was a little rushed without knowing the setup and background... I don't know if before the drivers were owner-drivers and it was more like they as individuals provided tendered bus routes and services on behalf of the Maltese authorities... if so then that established way of life ending overnight and then working in a different set-up, I could see why there would be these problems I've only read a little bit about the Malta network and what went wrong. I think the basic problem was that the government decided that what they had was "old fashioned" and had to brought up to date. They then hired consultants who designed a "gee-whizz" solution that basically broke what had existed for a long time. The government then compounded the problem by deciding they wanted to change everything over in a "big bang" change. When you put all this together you are almost guaranteed to get a bad result even with the very best of transport professionals. Bringing a brand new operator with a completely different way of working and virtually destroying the old drivers' co-operative way of working guaranteed labour problems from day one. To be fair to Arriva they were simply asked to run what someone else designed and they had to build a new company and operation from nothing. They didn't get planning permission for new garages in sufficient time because the Maltese bureaucracy was so slow. More ingredients to create a bad result. I would lay the blame for all of this with the Maltese politicians who failed to realise that you tamper with long established bus routes at your peril. I understand that some of the politicians have paid the price electorally as a result of the public being so fed up with what has happened. Boris take note in the context of Oxford Street  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D  |
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they do have character, though I dont know if the whole take-over-an-entire-country's-bus-routes venture just was a little rushed without knowing the setup and background... I don't know if before the drivers were owner-drivers and it was more like they as individuals provided tendered bus routes and services on behalf of the Maltese authorities... if so then that established way of life ending overnight and then working in a different set-up, I could see why there would be these problems 
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