Dorset is turning out to be interesting these days. Damory (Go Ahead) may have very much upset the county council by deregistering the several routes that they registered commercially a few months ago at the time of the county retendering exercise. These were routes that were deliberately registered apparently to block out Yellow Buses who had won those particular routes originally. The routes involved being 103 Bovington to Dorchester; 347 / 387 Poole to Dorchester; and 1, 2, 3, 4 Dorchester Town. Damory have also deregistered 7 Dorchester - Herrison Hospital, but this has always been commercially operated.
An intriguing possibility mooted is that the county themselves mighty divert one of the two electric buses on order for their new 6 route from Dorchester to Poundbury and operate the 7 to Herrison directly themselves.
All these changes happen from 18th February and it might well be poetic justice if Yellow Buses now regained the routes they had originally won. One thing for sure it is going to cost the county council a great deal of the money they thought they had saved by their new pan-global method of tendering!.
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