Arriva North West - Winsford Depot

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RE: Arriva North West - Winsford Depot

(13/12/2017 09:20)dca529x Wrote:  The GM reference was tongue in cheek. The ego needs puncturing occasionally as the desperation to be like London (odd) is amusing. As for council/LA input, obviously such restrictions work against reliability measures and demonstrate a singular disinterest or ignorance in the reality of bus operation. As for TC 'policy' that would be rater nice if they bothered to enforce it. When it comes to running time, that should indeed reflect the time of day, this just doesn't, with Mon - Fri off peak and all day Saturday constant at 110 mins. So, with that little lot, its no wonder the route is in such a downward spiral

Sorry, I don't understand what you mean by "ego" but I can assure you very few non-motorists in GM (apart from maybe Swinton or Fallowfield) think there is anything vaguely amusing about the fact they can't travel 3 stops for the same price a Londoner can travel from one end of a route to the other, nor that service levels are regularly being cut.

As for the "reality of bus operation", the reality is that without these restrictions, bus stations would be gridlocked (along with Portland Street in the case of Parker Street where the 130 terminates) and passengers of all physical abilities would have to walk into the roadway or run one or two stops down the stand to catch a bus. It would also encourage the 1980/90s attitude of competitors scheduling buses at exactly the same time, and then leaving a 30 minute gap - except of course, intra-bus competition only exists where the route is already well served. The point about Parker Street is that without LA "input", Parking Wardens could ticket any bus parking for more than two minutes (Highway Code 24x something, I think)

Don't bus stations have slot times to prevent chaos in Cheshire, Merseyside or wherever you travel?