North West Bus Service Changes due to Coronavirus outbreak

[iMarkeh]

RE: North West Bus Service Changes due to Coronavirus outbreak

(01/03/2021 16:50)NathanR Wrote:  Does anyone have a list or a source of the changes to the way services come into the stands at Queen Square? I was on 4592 coming in and out of town this morning with it being on the 18, noticed it went into Stand 4 when I was coming out of town I believe that was previously used by the 10A services on the QBN but still shares it with the 15, Stand 5 is now also occupied by the 14 and it's A/B/X services.

I know this isn't related to the thread but i'm curious to why the stands for bus services have been changed, does it have anything to do with the roadworks on Lime Street?

AIUI, Due to the mix about of bus services, it made sense to mix up the stands to even out the buses per hour. Some of the changes were unnesecary but others made a bit more sense. I think only 1 stand on that side of the road was kept the same, everything else was moved about.

Oh, and all done with no notice to passengers either (top marks to Merseytravel)

[SF07]

RE: North West Bus Service Changes due to Coronavirus outbreak
With schools set to return next week, it'll be likely that weekday frequencies will be re-timed and/or increased from next Monday.

Some details so far:

• Stagecoach will be doing so on some of its services in Greater Manchester, Merseyside, Cheshire and Lancashire, although no details of service levels yet.
• Diamond Bus North West will be running duplicate journeys on some routes (some will be partial route).
• Re-timing of weekday timetables on Transdev's 1 (Blackburn), 6/7 (Blackburn), 22, 24, 464, 468, 469, Mainline and Pendle Wizz routes, with some schoolday only journeys introduced on some routes.
  

https://www.stagecoachbus.com/service-up...:01:43:114
https://www.stagecoachbus.com/service-up...:24:58:369
https://www.diamondbuses.com/north-west/...e-updates/
https://www.transdevbus.co.uk/rosso/some...ck-board-2
https://www.transdevbus.co.uk/blackburn/...back-board
https://www.transdevbus.co.uk/burnley/so...ck-board-0

[Liamkennedy2231]

RE: North West Bus Service Changes due to Coronavirus outbreak

(01/03/2021 16:50)NathanR Wrote:  Does anyone have a list or a source of the changes to the way services come into the stands at Queen Square? I was on 4592 coming in and out of town this morning with it being on the 18, noticed it went into Stand 4 when I was coming out of town I believe that was previously used by the 10A services on the QBN but still shares it with the 15, Stand 5 is now also occupied by the 14 and it's A/B/X services.

I know this isn't related to the thread but i'm curious to why the stands for bus services have been changed, does it have anything to do with the roadworks on Lime Street?

There’s been somewhat of an overhaul across both L1 and QS bus station. For example, the 75 and 80/A used to depart from Stand 7 and the X1, 500, 204, 4A etc used to depart from Stand 8 at L1. They were then swapped round. I don’t see the reasoning in this, but I suppose there’s some method in the madness (internally at least) as we all know how tightly Merseytravel like to control stopping places.

[SF07]

RE: North West Bus Service Changes due to Coronavirus outbreak
Some extra journeys introduced on First Manchester's services from next Monday

https://www.firstgroup.com/greater-manch...l-services

[NathanR]

RE: North West Bus Service Changes due to Coronavirus outbreak
From Monday, school services will be back in effect
https://www.arrivabus.co.uk/help/coronav...nformation

[wirralbus]

RE: North West Bus Service Changes due to Coronavirus outbreak

(04/03/2021 10:38)NathanR Wrote:  From Monday, school services will be back in effect
https://www.arrivabus.co.uk/help/coronav...nformation

The Arriva website must be the most people unfriendly page i have ever come across , im sure people would give up and look at the Merseytravel website for local services than use that.

[NathanR]

RE: North West Bus Service Changes due to Coronavirus outbreak

(04/03/2021 22:54)wirralbus Wrote:  The Arriva website must be the most people unfriendly page i have ever come across , im sure people would give up and look at the Merseytravel website for local services than use that.

Can admit, Merseytravel at least confirm the operator running each service instead of putting a table with narrow sections, becomes hard to read after a while

[Valandil]

RE: North West Bus Service Changes due to Coronavirus outbreak
Since I don't think it's been mentioned here yet, there are changes to Warrington's services from tomorrow (8th March) as follows:
https://www.warringtonsownbuses.co.uk/ne...march-2021

[Barney]

RE: North West Bus Service Changes due to Coronavirus outbreak

(04/03/2021 22:54)wirralbus Wrote:  The Arriva website must be the most people unfriendly page i have ever come across , im sure people would give up and look at the Merseytravel website for local services than use that.

Although very much off topic, I totally agree with your opinion regarding the Arriva website. When I log on, my "nearest stop" is six miles away in a part of Merseyside (Kirkby) where Arriva doesn't operate. Try as I might I was unable to locate the bus that I was looking for and resorted to a printed timetable.

As for the Merseytravel site, that is even more exasperating. Yesterday it gave me a route plan that involved seven changes of service that would have taken over three hours for a journey that should in reality only require one direct service taking 16 minutes.

[MTL0201]

RE: North West Bus Service Changes due to Coronavirus outbreak

(04/03/2021 22:54)wirralbus Wrote:  The Arriva website must be the most people unfriendly page i have ever come across , im sure people would give up and look at the Merseytravel website for local services than use that.

The Arriva website had to be the worst website on the new from all the operators out there it's completely unusable, the old site was bad but at least useable, PDF timetables are dreadful, with every stop shown, that some routes go to 5 pages for one simple journey.