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(07/04/2016 20:51)wirralbus Wrote: [ -> ]Out of interest what ticket machines do both Arriva and Stagecoach use ?

(07/04/2016 18:49)Turbostar Wrote: [ -> ]That's interesting about the X8. Running it via the zoo would allow Stagecoach to re-route the 1 & possibly save a diagram. Don't forget the long layover service 1 buses currently have in Chester.

I doubt it will take that much longer & a bonus will be that it shouldn't get as bogged down in traffic around Cheshire Oaks at peak times. At least one contributor on here has cited the issues getting off the M53 & round the Oaks which cause issues occasionally.

I'm also hoping it will stop by the shops at Long Lane, Upton as well as I could get on the darned thing there!!

(08/04/2016 08:19)R879 HRF Wrote: [ -> ]Perhaps this is to scrap the zoo rail ticket scheme on the 32 between the station and zoo when stagecoach take control of the PR this summer, instead accept them on the x8.. kind of forces people to use it!

And if they decided to reroute the 1 to avoid the zoo, it would mean arriva passes can't be used there as the x8 isn't qbp, meaning people visiting the zoo would have to buy a stagecoach ticket.. just a thought.

(07/04/2016 19:09)wirralbus Wrote: [ -> ]This is a minefield of what can and cant be used as all the different QBP seem to have differing ticket rules.

(08/04/2016 14:17)wirralbus Wrote: [ -> ]So it seems that the Wirral QBP's had been signed up a lot differently to the Liverpool ones .

Maybe because it was First and not Stagecoach who signed the agreements originally .

(08/04/2016 19:32)wirralbus Wrote: [ -> ]It seems the X8 going to Chester Zoo is nothing new , under an old guise the X8 under PMT ownership called there , it soon changing to a straight 8.

Entrance into the Zoo does have its pitfalls in its own right when the Zoo is busy on a warm summers day , remember them sort of days which are few and far between.