Cross River Night Buses

[R879 HRF]

RE: Cross River Night Buses
Its another typical Merseytravel budget cutting technique.. Remove anything remotely useful so money can be wasted elsewhere.

Everytime I've been in Liverpool while night services are in operation there has always been a few people using them, a shame really, there are a select few who rely on them.

Another thing I've noticed is them ripping out the old SMART bus shelters, they cost a fortune to fit, and a number of the Wirral ones are in fine condition, yet are being replaced to allow real time systems to be fitted - which has already been proved to be a flawed system (just like the old system) as its highly unreliable and shows mostly inaccurate information. Most are currently showing blank blue screens.

One shelter in new ferry was stripped bare (glass removed, Bare frame) repainted, rebuilt, and then removed within the same week. Yes, no word of a lie (between new ferry and rock ferry depot.) where is the sense in wasting valuable funds to refurb a bus shelter to remove it 4 days later!

The withdrawal and scrapping of st Helens eco buses wasn't helpful either- "the environment is at the heart of everything we do". If so, why not fit ticketing equipment to the buses, they managed it in Florence in Italy with tecnobuses, so why not here.

It seems Merseytravel are intent on cutting funding on anything marginally useful, I don't know about everybody else, but id prefer to keep these services along with others which face the cut axe.