Warrington's Own Buses

[Valandil]

RE: WBT Network Warrington
Well here it is:
http://www.networkwarrington.co.uk/news/...m-2nd-june

Quite a few surprises there, particularly with the introduction of circularity to the Connect 17's and 29's, and increasing it on the Penkeths.
The 17's truly will be a circular service as well, since it looks like no vehicle change will usually be required at the Interchange or anywhere else along the route.
It's quite surprising that the 17 will no longer serve Chapelford, given that that was the original intention of the service.
Also surprising that the 13 will have a Sunday service, that the 18 will not, and that there will no longer be an 18a!
It looks like the 13 and 18 will interwork, swapping over at the Callands terminus.
Kingswood will no longer be served, though the 13/18/17's will go near.

I'm trying to work out exactly which things will interwork and the timings, but it's hard since some of the 'natural' timings look tight.
E.g. will the 14 and 15 interwork? -- they would only have 3 minutes' recovery time at Warrington Interchange ...

It is a surprise to me that the 6 will now terminate at Thelwall and there will no longer be any 7's.
So too that the 10c will run right through to Dudlows Green and will now interwork with other routes (the 11a, 12a and 31?).
On the 31, I really do not understand why it is now to operate only clockwise around the Hall Nook - Maple Crescent - Neville Crescent estate, and why inbound there will be a subtle variation in the route in this area.
One possible reason could just be to 'slow the route down' so as to create a more even headway down (Old) Liverpool Road, with a service roughly every 10 minutes between 29a, 29c, 31 and 32a, but with one gap of 20 minutes each hour.

I will be looking through in more detail over the coming days, as I imagine other Warringtonians will!

One thing I don't like about the timetables is that, say when a time is 01 minutes past the hour, it is given as just 1, though admittedly that is a pretty minor point!