Stagecoach MCSL - Chester & Wirral Depots

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RE: Stagecoach Chester & Wirral

(25/08/2015 10:51)wirralbus Wrote:  The diversion route your talking about via Royden I can confirm is full of tree's , it must be sometime since any double decker has been down there .

To be honest if you cant put double deckers on the 38 because of the tree's and the service 1 is out of the question due to a low bridge , there really is no other route on the Wirral other than the 41 and 42 , I have never seen enough passengers on the 41/2 of its own accord to need double deckers.

The trees along that road are easy to clip in an Enviro200, and as its not seen deckers for quite some years its no surprise they've not lopped the trees!

AFAIK the 38 diversion does finish at the end of this week, so should see deckers back out on them in due course. I often wonder why the 41 rarely sees deckers but I suppose there isn't overcrouding as such, some buses are full but never involve leaving people behind. I know certain 38 boards are decker allocated due to high number of school kids, the Enviro200s just weren't big enough and even had people being left behind so it is good to see management are well aware of loadings and are willing to act where necessary.

I assume there is some sort of subsidy/funding/agreement in place which means they have to serve Mill Lane and Bache rather than avoid the bridge? It is known that a few journeys on the 1 are suffering overcrouding.