Stagecoach MCSL - Chester & Wirral Depots

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RE: Stagecoach Chester & Wirral

(07/08/2016 13:06)telf23 Wrote:  I would love to see some deckers in Runcorn, quite a few services could really benefit from them. The old busway bridges are so worn down now a days and most of the places where they cross also have a crossing on the road itself, so I don't actually know why the council have kept them up.

I don't ever recall a direct link between St Helens and Runcorn either. It's not really a route that I think would work either imo.

A possible way stagecoach could extend into Runcorn is maybe extending their evening 21 service and mirror Arriva's daytime service. And maybe introduce a Sunday service too. Sunday services are few and far between in Runcorn. 3 of the 5 services go through to Liverpool, all leaving within 5 minutes of each other and 30 min intervals and the other 2 serve Warrington. I think a Sunday service into Chester would get some good patronage if it was at a reasonable frequency. (HT 31 service at every 2 hours (3 trips) seemed a little pointless to me)

The was a link from Runcorn to St Helens in the early 1990's the route number been 20/20B starting on the Busway the 20 would go via Halton Lodge with the 20B via Beechwood, they would follow the same route via Weston Point then Widnes Halton View and Bold Heath then Clock Face and New Street, there was one working that would swop the East Lance Dart around 10am for a ex WMPTE Metrobus.
North Western did a deal with MTL to end the service in exchange for some thing or other,

As for the evening 21 this is a Cheshire West contract and up to a few years ago it did run to Runcorn plus on a Sunday Halton Transport worked this,

It also went to Warrington via Moore the contact then joint with Cheshire CC Halton Council and Warrington these two decided not to renew the contact,

As for the Sunday services in Runcorn Arriva services are all commercial and do and do not receive any funding