Arriva North West - St Helens Depot

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RE: Arriva North West - St Helens Depot
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The point is that for a return journey of virtually identical length (Wallasey Village to Liverpool and Egremont to Liverpool) you have a disparity of £1.60. That is remarkable, especially as the buses serve the more deprived areas of Wallasey that the trains do not and are charging vastly greater fares. Put simply, a more reasonable return fare would allow some residents who have been priced out of using the bus to start using it again. £3.40 is reasonable for Wallasey - Liverpool, £5 certainly isn't.

Bus fares are not usually set by how deprived an area may be that a route passes thru, fares won`t go down,and who is priced out of using the bus,why would someone be using a bus service to Liverpool ? .either for work or shopping, if you have no money the bus fare is the least of your problems ,you wont need any bus even if the fare was 50p. i wasn`t aware that Liscard and Greasby were deprived either.