Halton Transport

[K853 MTJ]

RE: Halton Transport
No mate, its on the site of the old B&Q on Lugsdale Road
I think its the 13A now that you mention it mate! The 13 serves the Cherry Sutton end! All rather confusing!
Yeah, its always gone down that way, round the back of the new B&Q and come back out by The Toby Carvery (Bowers Park), but now I think it just goes straight into the hive and back again
It is really, was only a matter of time such a big part of the town was left rather abandoned by Halton. I don't care to get the 13A, so I just walk instead. But it can be very dangerous at busy times with there being a dual carriageway to get across. Should definetly be a connecting bridge from Tescos! The only thing now is that Halebank will now be completely unconnected directly to Widnes Vicarage Road by Halton services. Personally I think the 2 should be something like:
00 to The Hive
15 to Widnes Vicarage Road
30 to The Hive
45 to Widnes Vicarage Road
That way everywhere is covered as before just at a slightly reduced frequency as far as that end of town is concerned. I wonder if the 2 will go via Tescos to the Hive, in that they whizz in there, turn around and go back down to the roundabouts to The Hive.
It can be unreliable at times, the 12 often actually missing journeys from my experience, however since the recent timetable changes with the combined frequency being upped to every 15 minutes, this seems to be less of a regular occurrence. The unreliability does puzzle me though because as you say they do have a decent layover down at Widnes, and when I used to walk from school to get the 12 home from Vicarage Road, every 2/12 that came in always had decent layover time, but they often left like 5 mins late. I never did get that!