Liverpool City Region Bus Franchising

[St Helens Rider]

RE: Liverpool City Region Bus Franchising
612 will replace the 20 between Earlestown and St Helens.

There are a lot of improvements. The 23 (former 12) now runs full route most of the week (only short journeys on Sunday evenings), the 24 (former 60) now runs hourly throughout the week. Boundary Road now sees a half hourly service with the 25/25A, the 30 (former 17) now every 30 minutes on Saturdays, the 34 now runs through to Leigh all week, the 37/37A now provide an hourly service to Ormskirk (the Ormskirk - Southport is mostly unaltered time wise apart from the extra positioning X37 journeys, I presume this is probably to do with Lancashire County Council funding), Rainford now half hourly evenings and Sundays with the 37 & 38, the 39 every hour now. The X3 to JLA Airport runs via St Helens Hospital, Lea Green and Cronton (which receives direct service to St Helens for the first time in living memory). The only problem with the timetable is that it dosen't indicate which stops it uses (is it just the timing points or are there other stops).

After having had a drill down into the new timetables, the only minor grievance is that the services serving Marshalls Cross are still timed to follow/run at similar times to each other. I was hopeful that a bit of better planning would have eliminated this.