Stagecoach MCSL - Chester & Wirral Depots

[iMarkeh]

RE: Stagecoach Chester & Wirral

(24/02/2018 22:08)CTL45 Wrote:  You've answered your own question, it's just too tight. Cheshire Oaks and Deeside are way too unpredictable traffic wise for a very tight timetable to even be considered. If there was more money available it could be better, but there isn't...

It is a little tight using the new times using the same thing I said but I don't think it needs so long. I think you could cut off Stanney (it would have half hourly on the 5A) and i'm sure you could cut 2 mins from somewhere to make it exactly 1 hour. Cheshire Oaks needs to be sorted quickly. With 14 buses per hour, there needs to be a bit more bus priority. Maybe if the SPs didn't serve Blue Planet on the way to Mold, that could cut a minute. 2nd exit out of Cheshire Oaks then turn right past the Harvester. Whenever there are big issues around Cheshire Oaks, that part from Sainsburys roundabout upto Coliseum roundabout is the busiest. Head out towards the motorway, you are laughing and it isn't clear but much quicker. X8 should be the same.

Another thing I personally would do is not serve New Brighton, it already has the 4s. If possible I would run along the main road from the end of Nant Mawr but I think Mercia Drive residents would kick off.


On a side note while talking about Deeside, Every Chester 9/X9 is diverted into Deeside Industrial Estate. From April, Stagecoach will have the SP (5), 9/x9 and the DB4 into the industrial estate. There must be more later shifts that are uncovered. The D1/2/3 run really late compared to Stagecoach so I wonder if there are later shifts which could be money makers if Stagecoach found them. Also extra buses into Chester probably to cover dead millage. The early 9 is confusing in that is it 5 minutes before the DB4. When Stagecoach take that over in April, it will be really confusing having 2 services to the industrial estate within 5 minutes taking about the same amount of time. Idk who suggested the idea (FCC or Stagecoach) but it is an interesting move. Could FCC be about to withdraw a little bit of funding from the D services (no point in loads of buses going the same way).