Stagecoach MCSL - Chester & Wirral Depots

[First Class]

RE: First Chester & Wirral

(30/08/2012 06:54)Penny Return Wrote:  Can't speak for 471/2 but i see buses bunching all the time on 1/2 and hear people
complaining about buses being late or not even turning up at all Merseytravel should
do away with this so called Qpb it is not working

The 1/2 seems wholly ill thought out in terms of operation IMO.

Arriva are the "minority" partner in running the services- and run none on a Sunday or Bank Holiday. However they have fairly new buses and are fairly reliable timetable wise. Occasionally, the single deck capacity can be a little constraining.

First run most of the service using old vehicles, R or T reg vehicles for the most part. They look tired and unattractive to customers. No "quality" image.
Perhaps because they appear to run more services, they are often the operator who has the majority of late running/no shows. Also, why do about 75% of the time, we sit outside Rock Ferry depot for 5 minutes changing drivers? No other operator changes driver so often!

Even the 41/42 routes are starting to be overcrowded for a single deck vehicle.

All well and good saying wait until after the Olympics and see what happens, but Merseytravel should never have signed off on this until the quality infrastructure and vehicles were immediately available.