{"id":12881,"date":"2019-05-13T04:32:37","date_gmt":"2019-05-13T04:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/arriva-sues-government-over-east-midlands-franchise\/"},"modified":"2019-05-13T13:32:14","modified_gmt":"2019-05-13T13:32:14","slug":"arriva-sues-government-over-east-midlands-franchise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/arriva-sues-government-over-east-midlands-franchise\/","title":{"rendered":"Arriva Joins Stagecoach In Suing Government Over East Midlands Franchise"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>More Chaos On The Rails<\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_12914\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12914\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12914\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/arriva-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Arriva Trains\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/arriva-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/arriva-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/arriva-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/arriva-750x499.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/arriva-272x182.jpg 272w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/arriva.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-12914\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Editorial credit: Ceri Breeze \/ Shutterstock.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p>German State-owned Train Operator Arriva has joined FTSE250 constituent Stagecoach in taking legal action over the government&#8217;s decision to award the East Midlands franchise to the Dutch government-owned firm Abellio.<\/p>\n<p>The actions are relating to the opaqueness of the bidding process and in Stagecoaches case the decision to ban them from bidding on the route which they were running. The line operates routes north to south between Yorkshire and London, and east to west as far as Norwich and Liverpool.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Transport has granted Abellio the franchise for eight years, starting in August, which will add to their other rail franchises, including Scotrail and the Greater Anglia services between Norwich and London.<\/p>\n<p>Given the poor service UK commuters get from the incumbent rail providers and the issues which may arise post-Brexit it seems strange that the Conservative Government continues to grant control of Britains railways to foreign governments, who obviously have their own national interest and are not doing this for altruistic reasons.<\/p>\n<p>More <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-norfolk-47884691\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More Chaos On The Rails German State-owned Train Operator Arriva has joined FTSE250 constituent Stagecoach in taking legal action over the government&#8217;s decision to award the East Midlands franchise to the Dutch government-owned firm Abellio. The actions are relating to the opaqueness of the bidding process and in Stagecoaches case the decision to ban them&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12914,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,5],"tags":[1226,1227],"class_list":["post-12881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-uk-news","tag-arriva-trains","tag-east-midlands-rail"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12881"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12915,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12881\/revisions\/12915"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}