Queen Square Bus Station

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RE: Queen Square Bus Station

(15/02/2015 03:30)Enviro400 Wrote:  What I meant was to maintain a single inbound lane, but move the lane to where the lay-by is now, move the lay-by into the large area of pavement and then move the central barrier upto the edge of the new inbound lane. That then frees up the space to create 2 outbound lanes facing St George's Hall; the London Road services can use the left lane and Lime Street services can take the right lane- there wouldn't be a bottleneck per se, as the capacity of the section of road between the central crossing and the St Georges Hall traffic lights effectively increases by over 50% owing to extra space to stop at stands, or wait for the lights to change; you could therefore in theory accomodate 4 loading buses and then 10-12 other buses in the traffic queue in this area of the bus station alone.

Moving the lay-by into the pavement would allow space to extend it to the central crossing, so that allows 1 extra vehicle to alight passengers, whilst maintaining the same sized road as before. As far as I'm aware, buses alighting passengers here is not a major issue?

I apologise - I misread your post

(15/02/2015 13:18)Valandil Wrote:  One of the main reasons people from Warrington use Arriva's 7 is to go to Liverpool One, i.e. under present arrangements get the bus to Queen Square and then walk.
It would be of great use and people might travel more often if the route continued to Liverpool One (and there were a more direct route between Huyton and the city centre).
No doubt travellers on Halton's 61 and other routes which leave the city also come to visit Liverpool for the same reason.

I've noticed that with a lot of services coming into Queen Square (that go beyond Queen Square closer to or terminating at Liverpool ONE) that are empty or full often unload the vast majority or all of their passengers at Queen Square. I have rarely seen a bus that goes through Queen Square to Liverpool ONE carry more than ten passengers leaving Queen Square

Whilst extending the 7 to Liverpool ONE would be a good idea I don't think the service carries the number of passengers that would justify the extra costs this would probably incur. It is likely as has been mentioned by Childwallblues that a PVR increase would be required with all the extra time added by running to Liverpool ONE and then returning to Queen Square