Cheshire East Local transport engagement

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RE: Cheshire East Local transport engagement

(26/11/2020 10:27)knutstransport Wrote:  I'm not following. I was talking about how it would be easier to meet demand at Knutsford station in the evenings. Most people are travelling away from Greater Manchester, there's one train an hour arriving at 25 past the hour, so a bus leaving the bus station at half past the hour and heading towards Shaw Heath would allow a connection to be made with the train, travel towards the most densely populated part of the town and also the part of the town where people are least likely to own cars. I was saying it would be more challenging at Wilmslow where there's a lot more trains and fewer people per train but didn't say or imply the solution is an 88 evening service connecting with trains at both Knutsford and Wilmslow. In another part of my post I did mention evening outpatient services at Wilmslow Health Centre but if most of the people who need that service are from Wilmslow and Handforth then an 88 service to Knutsford in the evening is not necessarily the solution to that. Of course there is the option of a different route running in the evenings like Handforth to Knutsford, instead of Altrincham to Knutsford if that would better suit demand.

I'm saying that the 88s in the evening might work for linking linking Knutsford and Wilmslow stations to the populated areas in each town. Evening outpatient services generally don't generate much usage anywhere regardless of the bus service on offer. Linking to the train times at Wilmslow is harder but the chance of getting passengers is quite high if the service level is decent.

From the survey, I got the impression that the overall aim (the aim which I am against) is trying to link buses to the times of trains in even the smallest of stations (Goostrey and Mobberly stations to the respective village centres).