Stagecoach MCSL - Chester & Wirral Depots

[mrd97]

RE: Stagecoach MCSL - Chester & Wirral Depots

(11/06/2019 11:54)MTL0201 Wrote:  The echo article aso had, will no longer serve Arrowe Park Hospital or Moreton on evenings and Sundays, if they done proper research[ie looking at the timetable] they'll know the 22 doesn't operate evening & Sundays.

A lot of the passengers when i'm on the 22 are using ENCTS passes

Whether anyone likes it or not bus companies are commercial operator, & as i keep saying a route exists as it has a cash flow, local authorities can step in if they deem a route socially necessary, however given the recent austerity, it's getting harder to provide funding for such services.

Im not disputing that at all. I wouldn’t expect Stagecoach to ever run a service that isn’t commercially viable. However you would hope the local authorities would step in to plug the gaps which are ever present today. No one can deny that austerity has taken a massive toll, but the amount of services that have been cut in the past 2/3 years I’d say is astounding. With the new metro mayor and as Wirral is part of the Liverpool city region, you would also hope this would see some improvement to bus services. Whilst it’s certainly true that if there’s no money, there’s no money, merseytravel have wasted what money they do have. It also angers me that the local authorities are advertising the ‘better by bus’ campaign - yet at the same time, are cutting services. If you can’t afford to run socially necessary services, I’m sure people would feel It’s a bit ironic.

In the meantime, if possible what should be looked at are Beechwood and Noctorum need an evening/Sunday service, Clatterbridge needs a link to Heswall, west Kirby needs a link to Arrowe park (if the 22 is rerouted) and West Kirby should also see a Sunday service to and from Heswall as it has done for decades through the 186, 86/7 and 88