Services which don't exist but there could be demand for

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RE: Services which don't exist but there could be demand for

(19/09/2015 15:38)Dentonian Wrote:  Knutsford is a small town of 13,000 and wikipedia seems to back up its reputation by stating it is a "highly affluent" residential area - hardly good bus country!

There are houses in Knutsford which cost over £1m but there's probably around 50 of them in Knutsford itself (opposed to villages around the town.) If you count the number of housing association properties it'll be over 1,000. Those 50 millionaire households distort the figures vastly. If you knocked down those millionaire households, the houses left would be comparable to the houses in Northwich. Although on average the ones in Knutsford are newer builds, by being newer and closer to a big city they do on average cost a bit more.

I'd actually say Knutsford is doing very well for bus patronage.

A few years ago the 300 circular daytime services and the 27 Macclesfield bus operated with subsides, they now operate commercially.

The 88 route (former 288 route) is still a contracted service but GHA now operate a half-hourly service using mainly brand new buses with wi-fi for a lower subsidy than Arriva ran the route with pre-2009 despite the Arriva service being hourly using any old bus they could dig out.

The 289 route as you'd expect isn't that successful as it replicates the train route but serves a few villages which don't get the train.