Stagecoach MCSL - Chester & Wirral Depots

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RE: Stagecoach Chester & Wirral

(02/02/2018 07:53)iMarkeh Wrote:  I thought the MANs were newer than that. They look and feel it.

You can see which routes are posted more often and at other times you can see what matters by which services get recovered quickest. 51 is occasionally posted but it always seems to be from a 53 delay or breakdown. I know they interwork but the 51 runs along the back of the depot. They could quite easily reinstate that quickly. They seem to have issue on 53 then the 51 doesn't run then they suddenly have a bus spare by the next 53. The C56 is posted regularly so that is obviously a valuable route. X8 is the most common Chester post as it a big money earner. You don't see it hardly when the G3 is late or Blacon (quite a few diversions happen in Blacon over time and Stagecoach rarely post details of that) and I and many others know the G3 was running over 20 minutes late over Christmas due to greyhound park traffic yet nothing was posted on twitter most cases.

The majority of Chester's posts are Chester wide (general traffic in the city) or major incident (queensferry roads the other day and the swing bridge near Frodsham) not much is posted for minor things. You look at Gillmoss, they say temp traffic lights are somewhere and may cause delays which pre warns you. Birkenhead reported the other day about a 6 minute delay. I can tell you, delays can be much higher than that and not reported.
Also on the subject the numerous posts stating peak traffic is delaying buses, the dvsa guide to running buses states in section 3 that you should consider before registering a service if it will take longer at peak times. Stagecoach shouldn't need to post peak time traffic is delaying services, they should have registered the times to change to improve the reliability. The posts are almost every day meaning it is not unforseen therefore should be registered to accommodate the peak time delays.

The mans are only 59 plates making them 6 months younger than the 09 plates