Arriva North West - Birkenhead Depot

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RE: Arriva North West - Birkenhead Depot

(22/04/2019 08:34)DVG526 Wrote:  Merseytravel need to stop wasting money sending the likes of 2 empty buses an hour round Blakeley Drive, and hourly round Poulton Lancelyn etc and spend it on a proper hourly evening service for Ford/Nocky. Diverting the 437 etc isn’t an option.

Merseytravel need to do a lot of things. They don't listen though. Too much about what one single councillor wants and not what the passengers want.

Look at all the money wasted on the Christmas Day buses. They don't need to be free. Some of the routes didn't even carry or carried very little. The amount they wasted on Christmas day could have probably paid for a good few months of evening buses.

I think the 492/495 are viable at night but only if ran on their own (not interworking with the 124/125). Then you have the issue of the operators. Smaller companies don't want to risk commercial work and the big companies don't want to run in eachothers areas.
I don't know why Merseytravel hasn't put it up for tender under minimum cost so they then get all the revenue. They would make a profit on the tender.