HTL Buses

[iMarkeh]

RE: HTL Buses

(13/01/2022 17:55)St Helens Rider Wrote:  Thanks for the heads up regarding the 17 as I live on that route. I always felt this route could very easily have worked with 1 vehicle without interworking (as per what seems to be happening with the 602). I appreciate it's the way Merseytravel have done the contract but surely a 602 type solution could have been found for what is a service linking two major towns in the area.

The 17 is slightly longer than the 602 though. To have the 17 end to end hourly with 1 bus, you would have to have a 27/28 minute end to end journey time which is a little bit tight. Alternatively run a bus every 70 minutes which would upset some people.

I think it would be much better to work with Halton Council and try to work it somehow with the 27. There is for sure some dead areas on the 27 at night and so combining them would work out.


I don't get this whole obsession from MTravel and TFGM though for 2 hourly services. Just run a new, evening only service, hourly or something rather than having random 2 hourly buses to every corner of the borough.