Stagecoach MCSL - Chester & Wirral Depots

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RE: First Chester & Wirral

(06/07/2012 12:23)MTL0201 Wrote:  

(06/07/2012 08:28)YJ09 FWE Wrote:  

One thing I can never make sense of is why Chester have 3 route 1's. It makes abaolutely no sense to me, it's as though they've gone 'Oh lets make a bus route, stop there there there and there... what shall we number this, 1? Yes 1. Right, lets make another bus route, go round in a circle there, come back. Hmm, what shall we number this, 1? Yes. 1. We'll do one that goes round the other way and number that one 1A. Right, another bus route, go up there, past the Zoo, up to the city. Stop here, there, everywhere. What shall we nu... 1? Oh, are you sure? Oh well I guess that's ok...

Yes it is stupid, it often confuses people, Chester routes need to be looked at as there a few other routes like this, the number 9 to Pipers Ash and the 9 to Connah's Quay, both go from Foregate Street. The bus routes in Chester all seem to be kept to low numbers of which is the problem but changing route numbers for all services will confuse passengers of which come July 8th will happen with the 2, X2, 6, 7, 7A and 8.

I wonder if there is actually anything you can do to change all of this. What I mean is to stop duplicating route numbers.
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Whilst it might confuse you it does not confuse me, the Blacon & Liverpool 1s operate from different stand at the bus exchange, the Wrexham 1 uses a different route in the City Centre, regular passengers know what 1s to catch, so no point renumbering them.
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This didnt happen in the end because Arriva used 4** before the number but if the 401 had also been a service 1 that is when the chaos ensues with identical numbers on Chester - Liverpool services .
I dont want to start any more comment off about the 1's because we had enough of that with infamy141 on the previous forum and he got pilloried about from post to post .