New Buses Orders
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RE: New Buses Orders
(22/03/2013 21:16)3111 Wrote:(22/03/2013 14:50)Phil Wrote: Maybe I'm letting this get to me more than it should but why oh why have GL decided on Pulsars yet again? Is it depot management going for profit rather than customer satisfaction? I simply cannot see how a case for deckers on the 12/13 being declined.The 12/13 serve a significant number of hotspots and residential areas. If the services were marketed properly around those areas, they would probably appeal to car users (one of the main points of bus services - to provide car users with other ways to travel). If that knock-on effect did take place, patronage figures would increase and would prove that the order of single-deckers for the services was not enough. However, if that did happen and Arriva did eventually decide to provide the services with double-deckers, car users may already have decided against using the services and the damage may have been done. I'm sure that, if double-deckers were drafted in alongside huge marketing effort, their time would be worthwhile. Couldn't agree more mate. The 12/13 could be a big profit generator for Arriva NW however over the last 5-7 years it's been allowed to drift along with Merseytravel's SMART initatives quietly dying and then Endurances and even worse later on Dart slf's appearing on a route which can sometimes attract 50-60 users from Deysbrook to the City Centre. Arriva had a case for deckers on the 60 that it served a number of major schools yet the 12/13 serves at least 2 major schools, a large further education college at Bankfield, many residential area's and the Royal Hospital. The bunching on this route isn't as much as a problem as on the 10's for example but I've waited at the Jolly Miller sometimes for both city and Stockbridge bound journey's and not got on the bus sometimes due to the standing loads. If Stagecoach still did the 12/13, 18A's no problem if Arriva put in Pulsars but they don't and it is this reason the deckers ARE needed here and it would be interesting for a straight answer as to why (profit I reckon) we're not getting them. Overall Merseytravel too should be interested in the Tuebrook corridor and I'm not being overtly critical of Arriva for the sake of it it's just that what's being offered isn't what's needed and many of us have mentioned for a few years now deckers should be the way to go for the 12/13 and possibly many other GL routes. |
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