Liverpool City Region Bus Franchising

[Metroline1511]

RE: Liverpool City Region Bus Franchising

(28/06/2023 12:46)CUL 73V Wrote:  It isn't "utter tosh" I'm afraid, it's reality. The organisation responsible for the situation your community is unfortunately in will be the same one responsible for the delivery of franchising. Merseytravel. I suggest you direct your misguided annoyance at them and your local politicians, not the private sector. It's the former who have failed to do their job for the residents in your area.

That is true, but they've undeniably wasted quite a lot of this money. £6.5 million was spent on introducing the Walrus card, only for it to be phased out and replaced six years later. Conveniently, the financial cost of this unnecessary decision doesn't seem to be available, but it won't have been cheap. How many vital services could that money have supported?

I'd love to have a go, but I'm a Liberal Democrat and Old Swan only votes for Labour councillors.

It would have been easier to forgive them for discontinuing the Walrus card had they replaced it with a Yellow Submarine card.