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A new entrepreneur
enters Stockholm...
So a new year has started and on the bus front, we have a few news
updates, such as Busslink's contract with MAN regarding 30 biogas bogie
buses and SL's final Scania OmniLink ethanol order (since they have
decided to stop with the ethanol project and put their money on biogas
instead).
Another news is that we will have a new entrepreneur, a Danish one,
coming into Stockholm: Arriva. They've won Ekerö (Busslink's offer was
just 20,000SEK more according to sources) and Märsta (Busslink pulled
themselves out in the last minute due to economic problems). Personally,
I'm totally against Arriva. I'm against their employee politics (such as
the fact that not all former Swebus driver in Ekerö and Märsta will get
jobs when Arriva takes over), their uniforms (looks like pure communism)
and their drivers (and trust me, the way the driver treats costumers
depends A LOT on the company they work for); the only good thing about
Arriva is probably their bus fleet in Skåne, consisting of a huge number
of Scania OmniLink bogie (as the one on the pictures).
But once again, let's not judge before we give them a chance and see how
they cope with it. |
