Cheshire West & East Tenders

[iMarkeh]

RE: Cheshire West & East Tenders

(14/12/2022 11:38)knutstransport Wrote:  Notice the 312 will only start at 9am. Doesn't make it any use for someone working normal office hours in Wilmslow and likely to be a regular passenger (travelling most days) rather than shoppers who may only travel once a week. I also find it strange the first journey is Wilmslow to Handforth and the last is Handforth to Wilmslow, not the other way around.

I also observe the 312 will leave Wilmslow 7 minutes after the 130 but will get there just 1 minute later. That will presumably weaken the viability of off-peak 130 journeys running to Handforth.

Absolutely useless to almost everyone. Just makes it so that the development can claim 'we tried a bus, no one used it'. Suppose, did we expect anything better in Cheshire East?

(14/12/2022 11:38)knutstransport Wrote:  As there is an existing bus from Wilmslow to Handforth Dean Retail Park, it might be the rules regarding subsiding bus services where there's a commercial alternative comes in to play. Cheshire East seem to interpret them more literally than TfGM.

That's the free bus though. No commercial service and as such, it wouldn't count as it wouldn't abstract any revenue from someone else.