St Helens Bus Network Review

[St Helens Rider]

RE: St Helens Bus Network Review

(29/06/2016 21:51)MTL0201 Wrote:  The 121/122 were the tendered routes of 22/22A & no they're not silly routes either, certainly no equivalent routes in the Eccleston area at the times they operate.

The 22 has run in some form or other since the 1950's, Arriva withdrew the daytime 22 in 2006 with their major network change in St Helens. The 121/122 were the Evening & Sunday subsidised variant and have hung on for a further 10 Years, so it's withdrawal in September will be the end of an Era. Under these proposals Gaskell Street will be unserved (presently hourly daytime and amazingly 3 buses per hour Evenings & Sundays) and Dunriding Lane will only served in the daytime by the 139 between 0900 & 1500.

Another end of an Era route will be the withdrawal of the 196. Introduced in 1988. this was the first service operated by Nip On Transport (now known as Hattons), the service initially ran all day, every day (only difference was in the daytime the service ran via Peasley Cross Lane, evenings/Sundays via Gaskell Street).