Liverpool City Region Bus Franchising

[MTL0201]

RE: Liverpool City Region Bus Franchising
Had a a venture out, from observations reliability was up the wall all over the place, the 10s were operating in pairs [supposed to be 4 an hour], the 352 went belly up very quickly, as one of the journeys from Wigan took 85 minutes, couple of breakdowns too, one at Wigan bus station, & saw an Ultroliner with hazards on in Blackbrook, another driver trying to get to grips with the new E200MMCs.

The X3 was interesting, caught 11.59 service & a few boarded at St Helens & stayed on all the way to the Airport, the route itself is very interesting, it was originally supposed to go to Tarbock Island & then via Knowsley Expressway to the A562 but it's now via Hough Green but doesn't stop there [cue bemused looks from those waiting for the 79C], looks like a late route change avoiding Tarbock Island.

https://merseytravel.adidocdn.dev/timeta...6Sep26.pdf

This was the X3 original route

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1igvZ-5B...2PEJx/view