Reintroduction of Football Specials?

[djb]

RE: Reintroduction of Football Specials?

(09/09/2016 09:59)Barney Wrote:  LFC is about to play its first home game of the season with the opening of the new main stand and concern has already been expressed that, with this additional capacity, fans should use public transport to get to Anfield as car parking facilities are insufficient. The only problem though is that, with the exception of the 917/9 from the city centre, there are no additional bus routes or buses to serve Anfield or Goodison Park on match days. And, unless you live close to a Merseyrail station, the Soccerbus from Sandhills is not really an option.

Isn't it about time that Merseytravel and the bus operators considered drawing up plans for a comprehensive Football Specials service on match days from across Merseyside? One was in place prior to Deregulation and worked extremely well.

Also, I would be interested to learn what transport arrangements are in place for the two Manchester clubs when they have home games?

Both manchester grounds are fairly well located for public transport anyway.

MCFC is near the metrolink, a train station (albeit with limited service) and a few bus routes. Matchday special buses run from the city centre, along with a handful of other special services (mostly from the stockport area)

MUFC is again near the metrolink, and bus routes. Again matchday special buses run, and northern rail run matchday special trains to the MUFC halt - if i remember rightly these come from the crewe&stoke lines via piccadilly.

Both stadiums have additional metrolink capacity on matchdays.