National Express Coach Station in Liverpool to close

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RE: National Express Coach Station in Liverpool to close

(16/02/2016 21:04)Dentonian Wrote:  Manchester to/from Norton Street is 55 minutes off-peak, and that's realistic, especially westbound. Its also only slightly slower (but presumably much cheaper) than the train. You are now talking 90 minutes, which is not only highly undesirable to passengers, but would also mean extra resources and a complete timetable change for NX.

Although my Manchester-Sheffield example is unusual in that coaches still pass two of the abandoned stops, and within a few hundred metres of the other two, so the cost in serving any one of them would be negligible on a twice a day route, the lack of Coach stops away from the city centre is normal. Surely very few suburbs have direct coach links nowadays, with the 060 serving every lampost between Ordsall and Chadderton being the sole exception north of Penkridge (I never did understand that one!)

The talk about coach passengersc wandering the city streets late at night does prompt one question though; Doesn't megabus serve Liverpool?

Most of the Liverpool-Manchester coaches go to Leeds, & peak hour journeys can be 2 hours 30 plus, the whole timetable would have to be recast with extra coaches/drivers added if it went to LSP.

Not to mention the overnight 421 Blackpool-London wouldn't be able to serve LSP as after Liverpool that calls at Birkenhead & Chester after Liverpool & goes the A59 into Liverpool from Preston, also other day coaches that go to Birkenhead & Chester would be affected with extra journey times added, moving NEX to LSP is idiotic.