Liverpool City Region Bus Franchising

[St Helens Rider]

RE: Liverpool City Region Bus Franchising
Looks like the X3 with be the first service to operate under franchising in the Liverpool City Region with the 0359 service from St Helens - JLA Airport.

[gka472l]

RE: Liverpool City Region Bus Franchising
From a post on FB, one of the short E200MMC's for Go Ahead at Birkenhead has been pictured with number 5218, which assumes they are 5211-5218 (Bee Network ones go to 5210).

HTH

[MTL0201]

RE: Liverpool City Region Bus Franchising

(Today 06:33)St Helens Rider Wrote:  As I mentioned in my earlier post, it is the first service in living memory that links Cronton (which is part of St Helens borough) with St Helens Town Centre.

Cronton is one of those weird situations where it's right on the county boundary, so it gets the Liverpool-Warrington through route & the local service to Widnes.

I can't see the X3 being a success, it would have been better off if it was a faster version of the 89, such as, goes via the 10 to Prescot, down Huyton Lane, through Huyton bus station & Archway Road, then pick up Knowsley Expressway at Tarbock Island.