METRO - Laird Street depot

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RE: METRO - Laird Street depot

(26/10/2026 14:53)mrd97 Wrote:  Don’t know what on earth is going on, but there has been nothing but delays today. Tried the 453 from clatterbridge, it was half an hour late and ended up going via Brimstage rather than Thornton hough. The driver also kept seeming to go to Thingwall corner rather than terminate at Irby according to the tracker on bustimes. Where it’s supposed to terminate, cutting up Mill Hill Road from Manor Road, is an extremely tight bend and I doubt a bus could do that unless it has a short wheelbase.

482 to Heswall was 10 minutes late arriving into west Kirby, didn’t even run as the 480, thought maybe it’s cutting it out to run back to Heswall on time, but it just ended up going back to the depot. I assume they can’t cover all services due to a lack of drivers?

It was the same when St Helens went to franchising 7 weeks ago with buses running up to 60 minutes late. I was in Birkenhead bus station earlier on & saw 3, 437s going to West Kirby together, the 438s were running up to 60 minutes late too & this route is 2 an hour until Croft Retail Park [even yesterday the 438A was running up to 60 late at times], the 414A i got was 10 late when i got off it in Moreton, why is it always chaos when change over like this happens, i dread to think what Liverpool & Southport are going to be like.