Arriva North West - Runcorn Depot

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RE: Arriva North West - Runcorn Depot

(29/07/2018 18:38)iMarkeh Wrote:  I am only going off my observation. I mustn't have seen it at football time. What is to say deckers won't do dupes from Speke. People can't get too lost going between the airport and city centre. Just because Runcorn is the operating depot, nothing is stopping any other depot running the dupes.

Within the Merseyside area each and every depot is free-standing and responsible for its own routes and profit margins and, AFAIK, there aren't any routes within the Merseyside area that are shared between depots. As this new 500 route will be wholly operated from Runcorn, I cannot see how or why Speke would provide dupes at very short notice. I'm sure the depot manager at Speke has enough to worry about without having to concern himself with maintaining a service from Runcorn.

On another note, it will be interesting to see what time the first and last buses will run and whether it will involve a lot of dead mileage.