Boxing Day Bus Services

[H101GEV (Administrator)]

RE: Boxing Day Bus Services
Unfortunately, there's little positive to say about today's allocations. Completely short on capacity on countless routes, especially to north Liverpool. About the only praise is reserved for Speke, whose city centre routes were at least double decked throughout. Elsewhere, Green Lane operated Bootle's routes and completely fell short - a major city-serving depot with no deckers is a ludicrous situation - while Birkenhead had a single decker or two out on its routes as well. Southport failed to provide B7s on its 47 route unlike last year. Only saw some of Stagecoach's 86s and 82s, and as per for this operator when things get busy, the Tridents were nowhere to be seen.

Massive improvements are needed throughout Liverpool in terms of meeting supply with demand. The sight of dreadfully overcrowded and often completely full buses on routes such as the 10, 12/13, 20/21, 52 and others should hardly be seen at all, never mind on Boxing Day when the trains don't run and half of Merseyside descends on the city centre.