Liverpool Night Buses Christmas 2015

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RE: Liverpool Night Buses Christmas 2015

(18/11/2015 15:07)wirralbus Wrote:  The N1 is actually try to attract 2 markets here . The passengers from Liverpool and also the passengers from Chester.

Don't forget Merseyrail's night service only runs up to the county boundary station of Hooton.

Stagecoach probably thinks there is an untapped resource there .

In the lead-up to Christmas there is a huge potential market for night buses across Merseyside. Yes, I know that night buses have been tried before and, for a whole host of reasons, have been withdrawn because they were making losses but with a more proactive marketing of such services I believe that they could be viable, certainly at this time of the year.

Stagecoach - and Arriva for that matter - are main players in bus operation in this country and should be prepared to speculate to accumulate in order to grow their businesses. Since Stagecoach took over the failing Wirral operations of First, there has been a huge investment in new vehicles and some innovative service revisions which are now paying dividends. Who would have predicted a fleet of state-of-the-art and Gold services on the 1 a few years ago?

Next year, Stagecoach should grasp the nettle and go all out to reclaim the thousands of passengers lost to black hackneys and private hire firms.