Mersey Ferries

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RE: Mersey Ferries
If they are facing a £1.3million loss per year for what is essentially a tourist attraction, the ferries need massively overhauling.

What makes it worse is they are depriving millions from other forms of transport.

Tunnel tolls could go into the tunnel infrastructure, £700,000 pa.
TRIO/ENCTS money could go into the bus/rail infrastructure, around £1.2m pa.

Perhaps if the question was more like Halton Curve improvement scheme or run the ferries for 3 years...?

In any event, Merseytravel should sell this venture to some sort of private sector operator and not have the tax payer fund it.

The ferries will not last forever mechanically. They will need a refit in due course. How many more millions will need to be thrown into that?

In this day and age, "nice to have" things cost too much.