Avon Buses

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RE: Avon Buses

(03/10/2013 14:12)KU02 YUH Wrote:  If I'm honest, I personally think that your judgement purely on sightings is rather sceptical to say the least, especially as you don't seem to have sampled the service through a journey at all.

Actually, I did use the 39 on a handful of occasions, as a last resort if Arriva's 413 didn't show up. (Justification in short: old, rattly buses with Urban90 seats or a few pence more to use a pleasant Cadet or Pulsar - easy choice to make.) Never were more than five people on board the 39 with me. I regularly use the bus to reach Liscard when in Wallasey and so have seen the 39 loads at a variety of times during the day on a regular basis. I've also seen it in Meols several times. Let's just say that while it certainly took more passengers than Impera's other routes, "full" is not a word I would use to describe it. Arriva's 403/413 rarely requires buses larger than a Cadet to cater for the loads it receives, but I'd hardly suggest Impera made significant inroads into Arriva's share of the Leasowe Road - Liscard corridor. I accept that I haven't spent hours on board one of their buses covering multiple journeys, but if the peak time loads are nowhere near full, it can't be doing all that well.

As has been said already, the 414 is merely an extension of the existing short 413 journeys, which I somehow doubt had anything to do with Impera. Loads on the full 403/413 route evidently no longer justify a 10 minute timetable, and this change seemingly consolidates operations at the busier end of this lengthy route.