Warrington's Own Buses

[Katie]

RE: WBT Network Warrington

(27/10/2015 21:30)RSTurbo50 Wrote:  Katie let me tell you. I work for NW and I'm always observing GHA and Fairbrothers loadings. The GHA 16/16A is 99.9% of the time running with one or two passengers. The 21X for Fairbrothers is better but in comparison to our 21 service which always has big loadings, the 21X is pretty much dead. The first run at 8.55am is busy as it picks up all the pensioners who pay half fair....after that it's really quiet.

With the greatest respect I do not agree with most of your comments. I think it is incorrect to say that 99.9% of the time GHA Coaches are running with one or two passengers on the 16/16A. Whilst I accept that on some journeys they are only carrying a couple of passengers on the vast majority of journeys they are certainly carrying considerably more. I did give an example of yesterday's GHA's 12.08 from Dallam where there were about 20 passengers on board. Today my husband witnessed the same journey which left the hospital to the interchange at approximately 12.16 p.m. with between 12 and 15 passengers on board. This was followed three minutes later by Fairbrothers 16X carrying approximately 6 passengers. Ninety seconds later Network Warrington appeared and was carrying four passengers. I appreciate that this is only one journey but it is happening on more than you are prepared to accept. In fact, this week, GHA appear to be picking up even more passengers as a result of Fairbrothers changing their timetable which is aimed at Network Warrington and not GHA. I for one have no idea what Fairbrothers new timetable is as their website is not up to date but appears to be scheduled to leave Harrison Square immediately before the Network Warrington Service. By coincidence my husband also witnessed Fairbrothers 21X, presumably the 11.55 from the interchange on its way back to town, along Winwick Road with at least a dozen passengers on board. Shortly behind this was the Network Warrington 21 which had just five passengers. I therefore think it is incorrect to say that Fairbrothers 21X only carries any amount of passengers on their 8.55 a.m. service although obviously some of their services around the middle of the day which do not carry many people but presumably that is the same with all services. So far as the 16 and 16A are concerned you will be aware that Network Warrington will be making minor amendments to their timetable from the 9th November. It is our opinion that Network Warrington have lost a considerable number of passengers to both Fairbrothers and GHA Coaches and it is certainly not one or two here and there. We fully appreciate that you are quite rightly loyal to your employers and we both wish that you were right in your assumptions.