Stagecoach MCSL - Chester & Wirral Depots

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RE: Stagecoach Chester & Wirral

(23/07/2014 22:21)Raawwwrrr! Wrote:  I completely disagree about 'pointlessly' serving Ellesmere Port, it's one of the busiest stops on the 1 and 2 service. Lately the X2 tends to leave there more often than not with a full load, and a large number of passengers board there for Chester City Centre. However... few people use the service before Bromborough due to the better and closer shopping facilities of Croft Retail Park and the Town Centre. It will also steal some passengers off GHA's 36 between the bus station, rail station and Cheshire Oaks.

I'm pretty surprised no-one seems to have called up on the fact of it serving Hoole Road or the Rail Station? coming from Hoole Road to serve the station will consume a fair few minutes just on the traffic light sequence alone, especially if like Cheshire Oaks, the service calls in the same direction and loops around, towards Chester it will have to complete an almost loop and a half. Even if the service did call at Ellesmere Port, the journey could still probably be done in 60 minutes running direct from the Oaks to Chester, via the hospital instead of the zoo and bache like the 1.

Spot on about stealing passengers off the 36, never give that a thought. But from Ellesmere Port to Chester, the X2 is going to do it faster, amd probably the 2 so no one is going to use it. Maybe to Liverpool yes, but again (only by minutes) the train will be faster. But do that many people go from Ellesmere Port to Liverpool for it to make any money there?