Liverpool Night Buses Christmas 2015

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RE: Liverpool Night Buses Crimbo 2015

(25/09/2015 21:37)SNL 824 Wrote:  That 1 service just doesn't make sense

I agree. There is no history of night buses on the Chester-Liverpool service and I suspect this will run empty for most of the route.

On the other hand routes which did have night buses in the past have not been re-instated for the Christmas period. I'm thinking particularly of the 20 (Kirkby), 55 (Netherton), 75 (Hunts Cross),79 (Netherley), 350 (Maghull), 432 (New Brighton). During Mon-Sat daytime operation these areas benefit from high-frequency bus services of at least every five minutes and/or Merseyrail connections. Also, the decision to terminate the 53 at Waterloo rather than Crosby is very strange, a bit like getting off the London train at Edge Hill if you know what I mean. I know the night bus services declined for several reasons but in the lead-up to Christmas they were always popular and bursting at the seams. Surely, the people responsible realise that a skeleton services pleases nobody and piecemeal measures are bound to fail.