Stagecoach MCSL - Chester & Wirral Depots

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RE: Stagecoach Chester & Wirral

(22/11/2014 17:56)wirralbus Wrote:  Oh well thats too very long waits for the 31 Chester Park and Ride today , the amount of disgruntled passengers saying that next time they come to chester they will just drive straight into the city centre and take there chances getting a parking space .

Going to Chester it seems there had been a 24 minute gap in the service so the bus picked up a full load of passengers and a full load of standees and still left a load for the next park and ride bus , which happened to just pull in as we departed.

Then coming back was equally as bad with a long wait and full load and standing passengers , also like a carbon copy of the outward journey just as the bus was pulling away the next one arrives.

Seems like not a good advert for the P&R services at Chester .

Observations also had two 30's chasing each other also and never saw the 32 at all , 33 operates from a location which i never reached in chester today.

This is another argument for buses being equipped with two-way radios. Whenever I have used Park-and Ride facilities at Manchester airport and there have been queues at the various stops the drivers immediately inform the controllers of the fact and buses are despatched to sort the problem. As all buses are now fitted with GPS is it really that difficult to resolve these problems? Apparently, the iBus system used by TfL even tells the controller what the driver had for breakfast.