Stagecoach MCSL - Chester & Wirral Depots

[iMarkeh]

RE: Stagecoach MCSL - Chester & Wirral Depots

Quote:It maybe a case of the Neston - Chester service being bolted on to something , would Arriva potentially bolt on Ness Gardens - Chester onto the 487 .

That would be a nice route. IT would actually have a similar end to end time to the X1 but it would probably feel a heck of a lot quicker. I don't think Arriva would want to run it really but the route would be fantastic if it ran.

Quote:Hmm. Could Merseytravel and CWACC work together to find a solution? Or do they not really care about this. It’s a necessary route, and links up many communities. Heswall and West Kirby need to be connected via public transport, having lost a 2 per hour service and evening/Sunday service a few years ago. Neston also has very poor transport links. I say this as if it’s been withdrawn completely. But I do think stagecoach will get rid of it eventually

It will be cared about now more than ever. The Neston councillor Louise Gittins is now the head of Cheshire West Council. Merseytravel don't care about Neston or the links but Merseytravel don't care about anything which is even 1 metre outside of their boundary.

Neston is too much of a concessionary pass area and those trips where there is potential to grab some money, simply aren't being ran (School trips to Neston High or Bishops Chester I believe has a good number of students which live in Neston (the current advise being to get the X22 and then catch the 5 despite there being no way someone could get from the CBI to Bishops in 18 minutes). There are also Mollington students who would make use of such a service (some previously boarded the 605).

Surely it makes sense to run the X22 onto Bishops High to try and get the high school as then it's a guaranteed revenue stream. Though it means faffing around with the trips somehow to make it work, there will be a way to do it.