Liverpool Night Buses Christmas 2015

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RE: Liverpool Night Buses Christmas 2015

(09/12/2015 18:03)moreton407 Wrote:  I think the night buses could be finishing too early.

I've been in the City Centre around 6am on a Sunday morning, the amount of people hanging around waiting for taxis is a lot more than there is at 2am. I have noticed that the first route 55 (Liverpool-Old Roan) leaving the city centre at 6.10am is quite full.

The law of unintended consequences needs to be applied here. When the Liverpool night bus network was established in 1997, the licensing laws dictated that all licensed premises should close at 2am. Consequently, there was a mass exodus from the city centre between 2 and 3.30 am and the night buses were packed. However, when the licensing laws were relaxed clubbers were able to stay out much later and the demand for transport home was reduced. On the one occasion I was in Liverpool city centre at 5am on a Saturday morning a few years ago , it was still quite busy. Also, I have heard that the first trains from Liverpool Central are a lot busier than they used to be.