Liverpool City Region Bus Franchising
|
|
||||||
RE: Liverpool City Region Bus Franchising
(26/07/2023 14:32)iMarkeh Wrote: With bus lanes and bus priority schemes as well, they would benefit the existing routes so how much time would actually end up being gained by not serving some stops? The main way to save time on the express routes is missing out a deviation to the straight route (such as the X1 not diverting off into Birkenhead). I can't think of any deviation that these routes make off the main road which an express route wouldn't also take (10 diverts into Prescot but an express bus would likely do that too. 86 diverting off up Catherine Street/Renshaw Street/Hanover Street but an express bus not diverting that way is likely to lose a lot of passengers as many people seem to board/alight in these areas). Again, we really are going off topic - the possibility of bus franchising - but my suggestions regarding limited stop services in the Liverpool area is based on my memories of limited stop services in the 1970s. In that period, I regularly travelled on the 500 from Aigburth Vale to Walton Vale in 35 minutes. Even though the Merseyrail system has been extensively enhanced to Hunts Cross and Kirkby since then, it is no longer possible to do that same journey in anything less than an hour. |
||||||
« Next Oldest | Next Newest »
|
User(s) browsing this thread: 7 Guest(s)