Halton Transport

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RE: Halton Transport
Deckers could be used on the 14 but there is no way they could be justified. I havent seen a full 14 except for the odd morning one in quite some time. It really wouldn't be viable to run a decker on the 14a because there is no way that a decker is turning round at the hive a 3 point turn would be difficult and not practical so that rules them out there. The 61 is another route that only tends to see steady numbers and deckers would not be needed here and nor would they be viable because of the busways in runcorn and a few low bridges near huyton and prescot, the 62 again could not have deckers operating it because of the busways.The 17, 17a, 17b have seen decent loading in recent months but again a marshall is perfect for this. That leaves the 26/26a and the 2. The 26/26a has had good loadings but Halton as we all know have only just bought new vechiles for this route and they are coping fine. As for the 2, deckers are not going to be justified in any way because this is a service that is never going to breach its capacity, its to frequent and follows the same route as the 82a which also doesn't see amazing loadings. So this would leave them to operate new routes or school services. It would seem forking out so much extra money for deckers just for them to be used on school services would prove not even pointless but stupid. As for extra routes, we talked about this not to long ago and there isnt really anywere Halton could operate that wouldn't upset another operator or see decent loadings. Sorry for the sa (again)