Liverpool Lime Street to get an overhaul

[St Helens Rider]

RE: Liverpool Lime Street to get an overhaul
We were promised 'quality' rail replacement bus services during this blockade, well unfortunately 'quality' is not how I would describe my journey this afternoon from Liverpool to St Helens Central. First of all, the operator was a coach company from Walsall, West MIdlands - where are the modern vehicles form a certain local bus operator that rail passengers in other areas of the City Region have enjoyed when they have had major blockades recently. Then at Huyton, there was a driver changeover which took approximately 15 minutes (why this couldn't have been done at either end of the journey is a mystery), in Prescot, the coach nearly turned into a street with a dead end (and if I hadn't have intervened, it would have done). With all these delays, it missed the train connection at St Helens Central by a good 10 minutes. Hardly 'quality' is it.