Queen Square Bus Station

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RE: Queen Square Bus Station

(15/02/2015 11:43)childwallblues Wrote:  The problem these days is that the City Council have pedestrianized so much that as the saying goes we are now squeezing a quart into a pint pot.
Also in the 1960s approx. 30% of all routes left the City via Chapel Street/Tithebarn Street/Crosshall Street. This route is now virtually a bus desert.
It is obvious that our Mayor does not like buses - his destruction of the bus lanes has proved that. And allowing parking on main bus routes such as Lord Street, Sir Thomas Street and North John Street makes the situation even more worse.
There has been a lot of hot air on this thread but no real solution. With more and more deckers coming into service perhaps the real answer is to reduce services slightly on routes so less buses use Queen Square.

The only solution is better use of space already available. If small bits of pedestrianised street can't be made into a bus only road, then there is not a lot that can be done other than rearranging what already exists to squeeze as much capacity out as possible. I don't think that reorganising service timetables by allocating deckers will help in the long run; deckers are being bought for a reason, and that is not because passenger numbers are going down. If you reduce frequency now in favour of using deckers, then at some point in the not-too-distant future, the timetables will reach capacity and you're back to square one.

I think Merseytravel will be missing a massive opportunity to increase QS's capacity when they relay the road. That said, they must have this in mind if they're spending 8 weeks on it, as resurfacing would take no more than a week tops.