National Express Coach Station in Liverpool to close

[JamesR19]

RE: National Express Coach Station in Liverpool to close

(18/02/2016 01:23)Enviro400 Wrote:  Is round the clock security really needed? This goes back to the nightbus discussion that we were having a couple of months ago; security aren't needed to Sheppard people around and keep an eye on people. Yes there are idiots around, but the bus stations are the last places they'll think of going to annoy people. You'll find the idiots taunting the homeless or hanging around the 24 hour pubs & takeaways rather than waiting for a coach to London.

I think that security are a waste of time and money for the purpose of looking after a bus station during the early hours. If anybody was kicking off and causing enough trouble for security to get involved then the police would no-doubt be called to assist anyway.

24/7 security is a bit excessive like but there does need to be some sort of staff presence by National Express during the hours the Travel Centre is closed while coaches are still arriving and departing from Liverpool One.

Liverpool One is a very scary, unwelcoming and isolated place to be at during the night and into the early hours in the morning, especially if a passenger is on his/her own. My brother who trains in Kickboxing has said that it is the last place he would want to be at night due to drunken idiots coming out of the many bars and nightclubs in the area. Also no-one will target a homeless person with NOTHING on a street corner or in a shop doorway over someone waiting for a coach at Liverpool One that has technology, money and luggage who is in a more isolated place than the main city centre.

I just hope someone from National Express reads this thread (I have alerted them to it) and the reviews on Google and comes to realise how much damage they have done relocating from Norton Street and the effect it has had on passengers. It might be a small number but a mate and myself have got 25+ people to boycott National Express while they continue to use Liverpool One and looking on Google there are plenty of others following suit.