Services which don't exist but there could be demand for

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RE: Services which don't exist but there could be demand for
In my part of the world, we have the QBP on services 1 & 2 between Chester and Liverpool. This of course is a joint venture between Arriva, Stagecoach and Merseytravel and parts of the service aren't commercial (late evening/early morning journeys in the main I suspect).

For me, the service 2 finishes far too early on the Ellesmere Port - Chester part of the route & i've always considered this a hangover from the days when First ran the area into the ground & withdrew the evening service along what was then the service 3 route.

Although late evening services are probably never going to return, I think that this route could be run on a commercial basis until say 20:00 on weekdays and 19:00 on Saturdays (roughly an hour extra each day). Even when First ran the route, there was a token later bus on the Hope Farm section of the route?