Merseytravel Timetable Changes

[mathias]

RE: Merseytravel Timetable Changes

(12/10/2015 14:36)mr t Wrote:  All buses are being removed from Cook Street and Victoria Street of an evening due to large numbers of antisocial behaviour in the area at bus stops, in the roads and general drunken riff raff getting in the way everywhere

Went for a ride on a decker late last Saturday night from LOBS just to see what all the fuss was about.
True, you get a few idiots on Victoria Street, but the Police are often in attendance with their big yellow Sprinter vans.
I'd say the black hackney cabs that block-up North John Street are more of a concern. Either way, the bus still ran on time, riff-raff or no riff-raff.

No, what bothers me aren't the idiots, it's the fact that James Street Station is being taken out of the equation.
If I'm drinking with friends over the water and I'm heading back to Kirkdale, the logical solution is train to James Street then bus from James Street Stop JC right outside the Station.
How the hell am I supposed to do that from Sunday?

Merseytravel like to brag that they can connect trains to buses (insisting that some Stations are now 'Interchanges'), but they've made a big mistake with this one, breaking the link between bus-train connections for the sake of a few street drunks.

Integrated Transport Authority?
Pah! Don't make me laugh