QBP Liverpool and Wirral

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RE: QBP Liverpool and Wirral
The main problem with bus services (in general), but especially the QBP routes is the lack of capacity.

Stagecoach should have invested in bigger buses from the outset, compare Liverpool to their Manchester operations and it makes our city look like a backwater. At least they tend to use new(ish) buses, but some of these new buses are now coming up to 7 years old.

First Group, well, they've given up entirely. Not likely to be around much longer. Hopefully a successor operator will replace their horrid fleet with new, high capacity vehicles across their entire network. Again, compare with Manchester, and Merseyside has done quite badly.

Arriva have one of the newish fleets, but ALL QBP routes they operate should have double deckers allocated, 2/10/10A/14/471/472. Perhaps it wouldn't be so bad if Stagecoach/First had bigger vehicles...

You simply cannot reduce a timetable without increasing the capacity on the fewer services that run as a result.