New Cheshire East bus review

[djb]

RE: New Cheshire East bus review

(07/07/2020 23:08)iMarkeh Wrote:  The Howards 27 didn't serve Congleton on their trips (and the timetable I can see from GHA in 2014 didn't either). The bus served Zeneca from both Knutsford and MAcc directions (1AM trip to Zeneca and 1 return PM trip). This means there must have been demand from Knutsford to Zeneca.

If they brought back the 27 and ran it separately to the 88, you are looking 1 bus all day and if you change the times to put the 35 mins at the Knutsford end, you can run 3 town circular trips. Infrequent yes but it's better than nothing and it's using up dead time.

I echo this. The issue however is that the areas which fit what you are saying are the same areas who scream the loudest when their bus is taken away. The only way to win is have 2 buses, a stopper and a faster express bus but then you will have complaints that the fast bus doesn't serve them etc.

The 88A was a fantastic route in terms of connectivity and potential. D&G have never made a big song and dance about their services though so it probably wasn't that well known about. Any route which D&G does now will take time to build up since all their services around Wilmslow have lasted no longer than around 3 months before they get cut or drastically changed so no one trusts D&G to actually deliver a long term usable service.

The 27 extension to congleton being referred to was over 10 years ago when bakerbus were the operator.

Another issue now is the alderley park shuttle, which will have abstracted passengers from the 130 (or 88/27 if it diverted back)