Stagecoach MCSL - Chester & Wirral Depots

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RE: Stagecoach Chester & Wirral

(14/08/2017 06:46)wirralbus Wrote:  What alternate routes do Arriva operate to Chester , Stagecoach have Chester near enough to themselves when it comes to buses from Liverpool , Birkenhead and all points south.

Stagecoach's main opposition from Liverpool to Chester is now the train .

I am aware and that wasn't the point I was getting at.

Alternate in the fact that you could previously use an Arriva ticket on both the 1 and 2 (including destinations such as the oaks and the zoo arriva didn't operate but you could use their ticket to get to). They don't have their own route anymore, and you can't use your tickets on what was the QBP, so passengers will opt for the quicker service (using the X8 over the 1 & 2) when travelling to/from the oaks, zoo and Chester from Liverpool and vice Versa, with it being a shorter travel time and same cost (that you would have to pay extra) as the longer services.

The success of the X8 is purely down to the fact it now calls at all tourist destinations, is cheaper than a return on the train, and there is no direct competition from Arriva, and indirect from the sense that pottentional X8 passengers were using arriva tickets on the longer 1 service (They now don't have he option to do so and therefore receives all income and trade, in this sense, passengers)