Stagecoach MCSL - Chester & Wirral Depots

[iMarkeh]

RE: Stagecoach Chester & Wirral

(23/02/2018 18:44)CTL45 Wrote:  If it was feasible to keep it clockface then it would be, unfortunately it isn't feasible and any attempt would obviously introduce reliability issues, so what has been registered is the best that can be offered given the circumstances.

I have just given an example as to how it could be done. The new route 5 takes 1h 12 mins. Take off 10 minutes because of the route around stanney (17 mins from COaks to EPort via Stanney, 7 mins if it were direct). That makes it only 1h 2 minutes. That is still doable on the example I gave. Very tight but doable. Drop a minute or two off the new 5 times, you got the hour. It doesn't matter what time it leaves Eport, the point was the journey times, it is possible to just make it round an SP, do 2 trips on the 6, then back out on SPs.

I don't know about you but I would be pretty cheesed off that my regular half hourly bus is being replaced with quite literally random times. (08:42, 09:33, 09:54, 10:18). Passengers on the SP are somewhat used to it but it isn't right and heavily discourages passengers. It is the sort a timetable independants and newbies would create. No one with any sense would create such a timetable. You should make it as standard as possible (peak times excluded) and then link it with another route depending on how much time is remaining obviously before it must return. Just look at the times. Stanney can't be that bad passenger wise to warrant infrequent timings.