Arriva's Impending North Liverpool Changes

[mr t]

RE: Arriva's Impending North Liverpoool Changes
The 63 has been introduced to replace both the 62 Bootle-Crosby then the 53A Crosby-Netherton. This is because of the chronic reliability of the 62 which along with 61 is one of the most complained about services. The 53A has been cut too because it has also suffered many reliability issues.
The extension to Fazakerley is being provide too because people have used the 62 between Crosby/Bootle to get to Fazakerley Hospital for years, and this link has been broken as a result, so rather then have people get the 63 to Bootle then wait to get 62, it was extended the other way to maintain the link its nothing to do with having a go at HTL or Avon merely to maintain links across north Liverpool. If they really wanted to have a go at Avon on the 122 they would have run it more frequent, and the 122 has been running over the 53A happily for the last few years with the 53A more frequent. So this proves they arent interested in going against Avon as they have actually reduced their frequency from every 20 to half hourly. Simply they have killed 2 buirds with one stone, cut the 62 to improve that, cut the 53 to improve that, and replaced it with the 63. The same reason as the 61A was rid of those years ago as its reliability was absolutely chronic by the time it had come from Aigburth through Allerton Old Swan the black bull then up through Netherton crossed Queens Drive about 5 times round the blocks to Bootle. Admittedly the 59 choice wasnt the best number but that was the reasoning behind it.