Minutes Document for Merseytravel Committee, 06/04/2017 14:00
Merseytravel Committee Merseytravel Committee 6 April 2017 Present: Councillor L Robinson, Chair Councillor G Friel, Deputy Chair Councillors R Abbey, D Barrington, A Carr, J Dodd, G Flatley, S Foulkes, H Howard, K McGlashan, P McKinley, N Nicholas, M Rasmussen, K Roberts, L Rowlands, J Stockton, P Thomas, J Williams and J Wolfson Apologies for absence were submitted by Councillor T Shields 63. Declarations of Interest There were no declarations of interest received. 64. Minutes of the Last Meeting Resolved that the minutes of the last meeting held on 2 March 2017 be approved as a correct record. 65. Arriva Presentation The Committee considered a presentation from Howard Farrall, Area Managing Director of Arriva Merseyside with regard to their operations. Councillor Robinson thanked Mr Farrall for the presentation and referred to a previous meeting he had attended whereby he was questioned about the price of travel for young people. As the Committee were aware, this issue reached a satisfactory conclusion shortly after the meeting and he hoped that any matters that arose during the discussion today could be resolved in a similar manner. Councillor Abbey referred to the challenge that Arriva Merseyside faced with achieving the company’s Merseytravel Committee commercial interests but also fulfilling the commitments of the Liverpool City Region Bus Alliance (the Alliance). One particular example was fares as Arriva had recently announced a fare increase, however, this went against the aims of the Alliance. He went on to commend the Alliance’s achievement of almost 10% passenger growth and asked what Arriva’s plans were to support future growth.
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