Arriva North West - Runcorn Depot

[mr t]

RE: Arriva North West - Runcorn Depot

(29/07/2018 17:12)Barney Wrote:  We must be talking about a different 500. It is true that not many local residents rely on the 500 and tend to use the 82A but a large number of foreign tourists do. At certain times, especially during the football season, the deckers are very much needed and often have full loads and not just on match days. As for your suggestion that Runcorn depot would be capable of demand response (dupes), I think that you are placing far too much faith in an Arriva management that is very much isolated from its passengers/customers and their travel needs. As you pointed out, profit not provision is any bus operator's focus.

I have just come back from holiday and also see the 82A and 500 most days so know the loadings the 82A normally fills up especially school/peak times with very few people actually using it for the Airport except for Cheshire or Aigburth, especially at L One, that was one of the reasons for getting bigger buses due top also the C4/C5 coming off and the 82A being the only route through Brunswick.

The 500 can fill right up especially weekends and Fridays/|Mondays as Liverpool is now somewhere to go for a weekend break,
Last Monday I was going away and at L One to go the Airport and the queue was out the bus station for the 500, that was at 2pm, so I opted for the 82A instead which no one else actually on to the Aiport thankfully.
The 82A was also nearly full of its normal traffic.
So the problem is if all these holidaymakers now get the revised 82A/500 how are all the local and cheshire passengers going to join the bus if its full from L One not to mention once luggage racks are added there will be even less space! Its an absolute joke by Arriva to replace doubles with singles indeed. I was under the impression it was going to be every 20 minutes which would have been more understandable but dont know where it has gone to every 30minutes now.
The problem with the 82A/500 at the moment is that the routes and times are identical and follow each other from town down Riverside Drive to the Airport with the exception of Parkway.
It would indeed make more sense to make it 15 mins Liverpool to Airport and Widnes to Runcorn, but I have still not seen the finalised timetable.