Liverpool Night Buses Christmas 2015

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RE: Liverpool Night Buses Crimbo 2015
...and that's why Arriva's failed. Of course people are going to leave town between 0400 and 0500 - but people are still heading out at 0100 - something Arriva never capitalised on with their outbound-only services. Had they ran normal return journeys then they will have had passengers heading to Liverpool between midnight and 0200 and passengers returning home between 0300 and 0500, with only 1 hour or so of 'dead' time where it's neither here nor there.

Arriva also neglected to connect Heswall, which has a small night-scene, to Liverpool - by 1230 to 0100 people who had gone out in Heswall could have jumped on the hypothetical N72 to continue their night in Liverpool, then got a 0400/0500 N72 back.

I've said it before and I'll say it again - night buses should be run the same as normal buses - just because they have an N prefix does not mean they need all sorts of quirky treatment like omni-directional operation, security or mad routes/start/end points.

Keep it simple; that's what passengers want.