Liverpool City Centre bus re-routing proposals

[iMarkeh]

RE: Liverpool City Centre bus re-routing proposals
Finalised plans have now been released. A few changes to the original ideas and while it's still not very good, it does provide more buses through the city than it did before.

7 is moved to Liverpool One (not serving Queen Square)
10B cut back to start and terminate at Queen Square
12/13 cut back to start and terminate at Queen Square but some morning peak services will extend to Lord Street
14 cut back to start and terminate at Queen Square but some morning peak services will extend to Lord Street
10B cut back to start and terminate at Queen Square (no longer serving Sir Thomas Street)
17 cut back to start and terminate at Queen Square but some morning peak services will extend to Lord Street
18 will now run through the city to Liverpool One (no longer stopping at Mann Island)
19 cut back to start and terminate at Queen Square but some morning peak services will extend to Lord Street
20s will only extend into the city in the morning peak peak and will terminate on Lord Street (no longer serving Water Street)
21 cut back to start and terminate at Queen Square but some morning peak services will extend to Lord Street
55D will extend to Lord Street (instead of Dale Street)
61 will divert onto London Road instead of Brownlow Hill
78 cut back to start and terminate at Queen Square
79C will now run via Crown Street and London Road (instead of Brownlow Hill)
79Q scrapped. All buses will run as the 79
80 will run via Duke Street instead of Hanover Street
82 will return to all buses both ways on Hanover Street


All in all, this means at least people can get to work in the morning peak off most of these routes but shame there are no evening peak buses to these areas to get people home. I think it's unfair that Arriva have the extra route though through the city with the 10A and the 18, surely a Stagecoach route should also be allowed to run through to even things out. The extra 6bph through the city is welcome though rather than it just being the 10A.

With the consultation page saying no changes to other services, I trust that the Cross River services are still running to Cook Street which will help provide an extra few buses that way (I think it would be good if they perhaps moved a QS terminating bus into Whitechapel and then moved the 471/472 into Queen Square alighting bay as this would then assist those who are being kicked off at Queen Square to get further into the city, quicker. I don't think people really know about going to Whitechapel and boarding a cross river bus to go to Cook Street).

Anyway, that's my thoughts on it all.