Arriva North West - Runcorn Depot

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RE: Arriva North West - Runcorn Depot

(05/01/2017 22:31)St Helens Rider Wrote:  It also appears to open the door for Stagecoach to perhaps run a second bus per hour through this corridor to give them more presence and a consistent clock face 30 minute frequency.

As I have said previously, Arriva sure know how to kill a service off but I feel in this case they are being quite foolish in leaving a gap for competitors.

Absolutely -- if Stagecoach were to say run a service like this:

XX:27 Halton Lea South
XX:30 Halton Lea North
XX:56 Helsby Tesco
XX:20 Chester

XX:30 Chester
XX:50 Helsby Tesco
XX:17 Halton Lea South
XX:19 Halton Lea North

Then they would be running every 30 minutes between Halton Lea and Helsby, with PVR 2, would be running ahead of Arriva, and would no doubt make a killing.
(NB I've taken the liberty of adding a few minutes extra running time between Halton Lea and Helsby to match Arriva's running time, as currently I think the X2 is a little bit tight on that stretch).