Wirral Bus Network Review

[Jw88]

RE: Wirral Bus Network Review

(28/06/2020 22:51)wirralbus Wrote:  A lot of the changes where brought about in the last review because the pool of money was getting smaller and the amount of operators for these contracts was diminishing faster than the sunset on a winters day.

Unfortunately each area will have priorities and Merseytravel , Arriva and Stagecoach had to step up when Avon went bust , but not everything that they had was commercially viable and not all workable from the resources they had available.

22 , needs a lot of money from both Merseytravel and Cheshire West and Chester to keep this route going , Stagecoach can see no future in this route commercially , they themselves have tried a few things , the chopping and changing from routing via Arrowe Park Hospital to Irby Mill Hill , doesnt help .

38/38A , now the main part of the route to New Fewrry , no problem , but if you want to get to Bromborough dont bother , it runs round the block that many times you could get off it on New Chester Road and save yourself a considerable amount of time , im sure this was supposed to be a standalone route 39 in the original plans between New Ferry and Eastham Ferry .

492/5 , Oh this one is a hot topic , think arriva introduced this evening and sunday service as a political measure , if they could come up with a reason to withdraw it they would .

I completely agree, but i think that Merseytravel didnt spend what money it had very wisely , for instance why does the 129 need to even run, its passenger numbers are so low.

The 73 is also another odd one in the bunch, it does not connect with the 17 at Spital, so many have to go to Arrowe park and then Heswall, also it cuts off Raby all together as well as Thornton Hough's link with Heswall.

Moreton Circulars, why take something that worked like the 901 and turn it into the confusing 1/1A/1B/1C. This annoys me becuase Merseytravel say they have no money for evening services, clearly they do, the links at night or sunday are horriffic, it takes 4 buses from Hoylake to Heswall, surely that cant be right. I would also withdraw the 216/217, it is basicaly the same route as the 418, but also serves Woodchurch and Woodside which are also served by the 41 at that time in the morning.

You're also right about the 38, its too long and is useless south of the croft unless you are going to Bromborough Rake or Eastham Ferry, prehaps that money could be used to bring back the 145/146 or the 84/85.

Arrowe Park also has very poor connections of an evening, for Wirrals main hospital it sure is hard to get to unless you live on the 423 or 471/472 routes.