Stagecoach MCSL - Gillmoss Depot

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RE: Stagecoach MCSL - Gillmoss Depot

(04/01/2019 10:02)moreton407 Wrote:  Why didn't Stagecoach make more use of the X3 like having it extended to Wigan etc.

Stagecoach have made a great success with others in the "X" series, ie X2 (both Preston and Chester), x5 and x8.

There is so much that they can do with it. The issue is there is nothing exclusive about it. When you are deciding which bus to take, the X3 isn’t really faster, isnt cheaper, has no exclusive links. Why would you wait an hour for the X3 when you have the 20/21 every 6 mins, 19s every 10 mins and 14As every half hour.

Extending it is the only way it will make money. You don’t want to put more buses onto a non profitable route though as that then becomes a big gamble. If they put the same amount of advertising effort into the X3 as they have the X5 and 204, it would be booming. No advertisements, no exclusive links. No reason to use it.