Halton Transport

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RE: Halton Transport

(01/01/2017 21:42)motormayhem1 Wrote:  Along the 14/79/79c and 79D corridor it is quite flooded majority of the time with buses then when you get to wavertree clock you have the 75/78 and 61 which all join onto the corridor so with arriva having buses on that corridor every 3-4 mins with no stagecoach services running along it id say a very high percentage would hold arriva tickets as it as a fair few students along the route too.
Halton transport would most probably have there own little fan base along the route and can carry quite a few passengers out of liverpool but not sure how many would be paying passengers and how many would hold merseytravel or haltons own passes and how many stay on to travel across the boundry into halton/runcorn.

The 75 goes nowhere near Wavertree Clock Tower, and operates via Allerton.

Mostly the patronage of the 14/14A is elderly passengers, those crossing the Mersey/Halton boundary, Merseytravel pass holders, Halton Students and Fare paying passengers (who board as they're paying cash and the 14 has came first)

If you take the Wavertree to Liverpool section:
Arriva have the 79 every 5 minutes (12 buses an hour)
They also have the 78/79C half hourly (4 buses an hour).
Halton have the 14/A/61 (7 buses an hour - complimented by school shorts such as 61A)

The 14 is more established and frequent than the 79C and also cheaper for passengers crossing into Halton from Merseyside, It's also cheaper and more frequent between Hough Green and Runcorn than the 79C also. Remember, the purpose of the 14 isn't to get passengers in Liverpool, It's for those in Halton and crossing into Halton, any passengers picked up along the way is merely a bonus. It would be like comparing Stagecoach's presence on the 10A to that of the Arriva 33 out of St Helens