Warrington's Own Buses

[Katie]

RE: WBT Network Warrington

(29/10/2015 14:07)Lynx Wrote:  I would disagree that Network Warrington have lost a "considerable" number of passengers to GHA and Fairbrothers. They have lost some passengers but like I say good loadings on GHA's 16 are inconsistent and generally down to the number of people who will have appointments at the hospital on a set day. I don't think they have necessarily taken any regular passengers from Network Warrington as like I say GHA's loadings are just to inconsistent to support this.

I appreciate your comments but I am still of the opinion that Network Warrington have lost a considerable number of passengers to both GHA and Fairbrothers but regret if I did not make it clear that I was referring to the three services which Fairbrothers run i.e. Westy, Dallam and Orford and the two which GHA coaches operate i.e. namely the 45 and 16/16A.

I was not solely referring to the Dallam service.

There is no doubt in my mind that Fairbrothers do carry very decent numbers of passengers particularly on the Westy and Dallam routes and it is my opinion that they carry more passengers on the Orford 21X than our colleague on this forum, RSTurbo, has suggested. I also disagree with our friend when he insists on stating that 99.9% of GHA services to Dallam are carrying only one or two passengers. This is certainly not the case. However, RSTurbo, has conceded that Fairbrothers are doing well and, if that is the case, the question has to b e asked where they are obtaining their passengers from? The answer is surely that before Fairbrothers decided to run these routes the vast majority of their passengers travelled with Network Warrington. The same applies with GHA coaches particularly on the number 45 service.

As far as GHA coaches are concerned I think you make a good point but the way in which Network Warrington and Fairbrothers have re scheduled their timetables is playing into the hands of GHA Coaches.

Referring to GHA coaches service number 45 to Northwich there is no doubt that they carry busy loads on most of their journeys. The Northwich service is one which we use regularly although we only travel on Network Warrington's number 46 by choice. As Warringtonians we are hoping that the Network Warrington number 46 service will be a success although - as you are probably aware - at the present time the service is suffering from horrendous roadworks in a number of areas on route which is resulting in it losing further passengers to GHA coaches particularly on the return journey between Stretton and Warrington interchange.