Arriva North West - St Helens Depot

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RE: Arriva North West - St Helens Depot

(10/07/2014 21:19)turbo777 Wrote:  Take a moment to put yourself in the place of a passenger, I'm a fare paying passenger and when I pay my fare I want to be able sit down for my journey, travel on a clean bus, travel on a bus that does not want to appear to want to tear itself apart and so give me an headache in the process. Some of those older buses at St Helens are, and let's not sugar coat it are absolutely dreadful. And St Helens gets used as a dumping ground for Liverpools crap buses. Well I say to Arriva management it's insulting to the people of St Helens that we get sh*t buses, and if what I've read on here is accurate there's more on the way. I want the same standard vehicle Speke have! I'm paying the fare just like they are.

I agree with most of what you say but it has to be said, the situation hasn't been perfect at Speke either. The Myllenniums which are finally leaving once the new Enviro400s arrive are truly terrible buses, at least on a par and in some cases worse than a lot of the older Darts at St Helens. Having occasionally endured a Myllennium substituting for a Volvo B7TL, I can definitely empathise with the situation on many of St Helens' routes. The Bendibuses weren't much better in terms of ride quality either.

Things are at least improving at Speke though with the depot's heaps departing. With a bit of luck, deckers will indeed be ordered for the 10/10A next year and Pulsars from these routes can be cascaded to replace the ageing Darts. An ideal compromise all-round, fixing the congestion issues on the main route and offering a vastly superior (and larger) replacement for locals.