Merseyside Bus Review 2022

[mrd97]

RE: Merseyside Bus Review 2022
The proposals off the Wirral are a mixture of good and bad.

The 16/17 should run via The Hospital grounds - and with the 41/42 now serving Arrowe Park, perhaps it should go back to the original Moreton - Clatterbridge route. The 2 spare buses could be used to run a service from Eastham to Heswall, keeping the same circular route the 16/17 have now.

The 41/42 extension to Arrowe Park is long overdue and a very welcome change.

The 106/107 is ridiculous now - I’ve called for Mount Road and Hamilton Road to be served by a bus route again but adding these to the 106/107 has going here there and everywhere and back on itself - why any they do what they did with Arriva and the 418 and re-route a commercial service - the 414 could easily be diverted via the old 10/10A route as the Mount Pleasant/Magazine Lane is served by the 432.

418 is being cut cut cut. 5 years ago they ran half hourly and had an evening Sunday service albeit as the 118/119. Cut to hourly. Only benefit of this is the times are going to be the same past each hour - something a 40 minute frequency does not allow (it’s a stupid frequency for a service)

492/495 similar position - why not get them extended either end to Arrowe Park and Woodside and this way Noctorum gains it’s lost link to Arrowe Park Hospital.

81 change via Greenbank Road makes sense. No bus stops on Black Horse Hill. Could do with one more departure from Arrowe Park at 1842.

91/91A are not due to change but the weekday and weekend services run via wildly difffernt routes and should be simplified. Why not run the service as the weekday one to Rose Mount, then loops back to Holm Lane and takes the 91A route to Holmlands Drive or something.

73 could serve Bebington Station and then via Kings Lane or Town Lane alternate hours instead of via Heath Road.

Heswall needs a link to Clatterbridge. That could be worked into a revised 16/17 perhaps.

I’m guessing a slight increase in provision is not on the table. Even just one or two buses. Perhaps a circular from Birkenhead to Prenton Dell, whose residents now have to go via Arrowe Park and Beechwood to get to Birkenhead. A new link here and there could really help plug the gaps.