Warrington's Own Buses

[Valandil]

RE: WBT Network Warrington

(11/09/2013 18:49)anw2015 Wrote:  Such a disappointment that they have chosen to strike like this, going to cause absolute chaos on Friday.

The service changes have had a big effect on the 25. The service has lost at least 3 double deckers from its allocation (2 replaced by cadets and 1 replaced by an eclipse). A 30 minute frequency is inadequate during the daytime too. The 7.50 service from Warrington is now a eclipse which is ridiculous as this service easily filled a double decker (with standing loads sometimes too). Timekeeping has gone out of the window since the changes too. Fairbrothers take note!

The deckers seemed to have moved to the 19. There is also a extra 19 in the morning which does a short to Culcheth, leaving Warrington at about 7.40 with a 19 to Leigh timetabled literally a couple of minutes after it. Both are booked deckers which seems a bit silly. One of these would be far better utilized on the 7.50 25.

I agree, especially about timekeeping.
A grandmother I was waiting at a bus stop for the 23 with, going to pick up her grandchildren from a school near Manchester Road, said she can no longer guarantee to be able to pick them up and was absolutely furious when the 23 that particular day was so late (or omitted) that she felt she had to catch the 25 which came nearly 20 minutes after her expected bus was due, and then desperately try to walk with her walking stick to the school from the Lidl stop in the town centre as fast as she could.
Of course, that is an isolated incident, but I have been taking note of other things and see a generally worse performance.

I can't find the short 19 to Culcheth you mention.
Is it just a duplicate maybe?
I also can't see what it would work onto, unless it just runs dead back to Warrington?!

Time seems to be lost on the 3 but regained on the 4a, which seems to have quite a bit of slack at the Woolston end.
It's good to see Eclipses tottering around the small roads there

It seems that the 28 interworks with half of the 24's, with the other half of the 24's interworking with the 19 as before.
I guess this is the only way it can work with things as they stand, but there is now a tremendous amount of slack and stand time in the 28's timetable.