Cumfybus

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RE: Merseytravel Timetable Changes

(18/06/2012 22:21)bolton bus basher Wrote:  everything, all thatto heath want is a cheap service and well after the child fares went upto 3 3rds the adult price it had a huge impact with people in this area and they left arriva and stagecoach (all who could) and gone onto the 137/138 and i know other will go onto the 139 as others are sick of the price to liverpool

OMG! It's like going around in a circle with you! The 137/138 serves areas that other services don't, hence why it's the 137/138 and not the 10/10A. If people use it because it's cheaper, then that's fair enough - they must have very boring lives if they sit there and watch 10s and 10As go past whilst waiting for their 137/138.

Going to Liverpool is different. People tend to get the bus that runs more and is the quickest - and preferably the cheapest. They might, on the odd occasion, find that the extended 139 turns up at their stop and is cheaper than the 10/10A, so they might use it on the odd occasion. How people will be able to run their lives using Cumfybus permanently around that hourly timetable though is beyond me!

It's been extended to be a 70, really - NOT solely to give the existing 70 passengers a new link to Liverpool. The link isn't needed - it wasn't needed up until now, so it won't be needed now.