Stagecoach MCSL - Chester & Wirral Depots

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RE: Stagecoach Chester & Wirral

(06/08/2016 22:18)motormayhem1 Wrote:  Deckers would be ideal for the X1 but they wouldn't be suitable due to the X1 serving most of the busway which as low bridges along it.
Ive always thought a route from st helens to runcorn would be great as 2 possible options would be to extend the 17 through widnes then over the bridge and then like the 110 to murdishaw or could have it going to warrington then like haltons 62 upto the halton lea shopping city.

I would love to see some deckers in Runcorn, quite a few services could really benefit from them. The old busway bridges are so worn down now a days and most of the places where they cross also have a crossing on the road itself, so I don't actually know why the council have kept them up.

I don't ever recall a direct link between St Helens and Runcorn either. It's not really a route that I think would work either imo.

A possible way stagecoach could extend into Runcorn is maybe extending their evening 21 service and mirror Arriva's daytime service. And maybe introduce a Sunday service too. Sunday services are few and far between in Runcorn. 3 of the 5 services go through to Liverpool, all leaving within 5 minutes of each other and 30 min intervals and the other 2 serve Warrington. I think a Sunday service into Chester would get some good patronage if it was at a reasonable frequency. (HT 31 service at every 2 hours (3 trips) seemed a little pointless to me)