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RE: Arriva North West - Birkenhead Depot
(30/12/2018 09:31)ls1911 Wrote: Is it just Southport drivers doing the rail replacements then? Or certain drivers from each depot? I assume all the buses are stored at Laird Street overnight? My understanding is, as with previous phases, drivers are drafted in from across the area. No single depot would have sufficient spare drivers for a big operation such as the closure of the Loop Line. |
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RE: Arriva North West - Birkenhead Depot
Drivers are brought in from other garages to cover these rails but only drivers who have been trained on the use of the mersey tunnels are to take buses through them. All the drivers on the birkenhead - liverpool are the ones who done the slabtrack last time so have all had the sufficient training on the tunnels as buses on the merseyrail contract are running out of birkenhead depot while the ones on the northern rail contract was running out of speke. |
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RE: Arriva North West - Birkenhead Depot
Shouldn't Arriva be thinking about rerouting the 414 to operate via Albion Street to replace the Avon Buses 10/10A, as the 414 follows the same route as the 432 between Liscard and New Brighton. |
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RE: Arriva North West - Birkenhead Depot
(04/01/2019 10:05)moreton407 Wrote: Shouldn't Arriva be thinking about rerouting the 414 to operate via Albion Street to replace the Avon Buses 10/10A, as the 414 follows the same route as the 432 between Liscard and New Brighton. Agreed, Merseytravel should fund this section, it’s only a small diversion, so it wouldn’t cost much. Let’s not forget this section had a half hourly service all day, every day with the 10/10A and 118/119. Disgraceful it has no bus at all. Let’s not forget Poulton Road, the 106 is supposed to cover the 408/09 but not exactly a very good provision is it. Still no evening or Sunday service on Poulton Road, no evening service on Liscard Road, and no service at all on Brougham Road. Wallasey hasn’t half suffered in recent times. |
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RE: Arriva North West - Birkenhead Depot
Arriva are a commercial company and will put buses on routes with the most chances of making a profit unfortunately . Unfortunately for the people of Wallasey there will be places where there is no money to be made and hence servoices will be cut to the bone before being withdrawn altogether. QBP is near enough dead in the water on the wirral , i think the extension of the 407 to West Kirby against the 22 and 38 may well see the end of the 471/2 partnership in time. |
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RE: Arriva North West - Birkenhead Depot
I look back and think of the services we have lost on the Wirral in the past 4 years or so. You’d think merseytravel’s funding has been cut to absolute zero. 10/10A New Brighton - Arrowe Park (every 30 mins Mon-Sat) 12/12A Birkenhead - Arrowe Park (every 30 mins Mon-Fri) 18 Birkenhead - Moreton (Every 30 mins Mon-Fri, every 60 mins sat) 77/77A Woodside - Heswall/West Kirby ect (every 60 minutes Mon-Sat) 81 Woodside - Greasby (every 60 mins Sat) 83/83A Birkenhead - West Kirby (every 15 mins Mon-Fri) 84/85 Heswall - Mill Park/Eastham (every 60 mins Mon-Sat) (Not replaced at all) 86/87 (and later 88) Leasowe - Mill Park/Eastham Ferry (every 60 mins Eve/suns) 90 Woodside - Prenton (every 60 mins Mon-sat) 106 (Moreton - Liscard section) 107/207/208 Woodside - New Brighton (early mornings) 112/113 New Ferry - Poulton Lancelyn or Heswal (every 30 mins mon-sat) 118/119 New Brighton - Mill Park (every 30 mins Eve/sun) 124/125 Harrison Drive - Seacombe 138/139 Meols - Newton (partially replaced by the 80) 145/146 Birkenhead - Eastham Ferry (every 30 mins Mon-Fri) 154/155 Birkenhead - Prenton or Tranmere (every 70 mins Mon-Sat) 164 Woodside - New Ferry (every 60 mins Eves) 197 Woodside - Noctorum Cirular (early mornings) 272 (Arrowe Park - Heswall section and all Eve/sun journeys) 286 Eastham Ferry - Rock Ferry circular (every 60 mins sat) 403: Seacombe - Arrowe Park (every 30 mins Mon-Sat) 408 Woodside - Wallasey Village (every 30 mins Mon-Sat) 418/419 (New Ferry - Mill Park section) 492/495 (Evening and Sunday buses) 901: Moreton - Leasowe (every 30 mins Mon-Sat, every 60 Eve/Sun) Areas now without evening or Sunday provision: BEECHWOOD NOCTORUM WALLASEY Breck Road/Poulton Road Liscard Road Harrison Drive NEW FERRY New Ferry Shorefields PRENTON Borough Road (Mount Road - Singleton Avenue section) Mount Road/Storeton Road Bedford Drive/Bedford Avenue GREASBY Mill Lane/Mill Hill Road SPITAL Spital Road EASTHAM FERRY Ferry Road (Sun only) Areas without any bus provision at all: NEW BRIGHTON Victoria Road Dudley Road Hamilton Road Mount Road Earlston Road/Kirkway WALLASEY Brougham Road HESWALL A section of Barnston Road A section of Brimstage Road GAYTON Well Lane (Section) Dee Park Road Gayton Parkway BRIMSTAGE Talbot Avenue/Manor Road RABY VILLAGE BEBINGTON Corrie Drive/Quarry Avenue Town Lane Kings Lane BIRKENHEAD/OXTON Eastbourne Road Grange Mount Grosvenor Road Gerald Road PRENTON Holm Lane (Bus only on Saturdays) Mendip Road Temple Road South Road TRANMERE Well Lane Albany Road Downham Road Elm Road NEW FERRY New Ferry Road (Section) The Dell Proctor Road St Peters Road Mersey View ROCK FERRY Highfield South Off the top of my head, these are the areas which have lost either an Evening or Sunday bus as of late, or lost a bus altogether. I realise this is long winded, but hopefully it points out the severity these funding cuts have had. It’s soemthing I’m very passionate about. I feel it basically Beeching for buses. Once again I’m quite a new member so I apologise if this is innapropriate for the thread. |
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RE: Arriva North West - Birkenhead Depot
(04/01/2019 22:07)mrd97 Wrote: I look back and think of the services we have lost on the Wirral in the past 4 years or so. You’d think merseytravel’s funding has been cut to absolute zero. It's all to do with the government not merseytravels fault they have lost half their funding since 2012 and lose more these 2 years so be even more cuts |
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RE: Arriva North West - Birkenhead Depot
I would prefer to call it The Ridley Cuts rather than Beeching for Ridley was the architect of the 1985 Act that resulted in bus deregulation. For those of us with long memories, we were promised a more efficient, streamlined bus service that would would guarantee socially necessary (supported) services for isolated communities. It's been a death by a thousand cuts - especially since 2010 - but it's blindingly obvious to anyone who relies on buses that the bus is close to death. Anyone care to suggest how to resuscitate the patient? |
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RE: Arriva North West - Birkenhead Depot
(05/01/2019 08:46)Barney Wrote: I would prefer to call it The Ridley Cuts rather than Beeching for Ridley was the architect of the 1985 Act that resulted in bus deregulation. For those of us with long memories, we were promised a more efficient, streamlined bus service that would would guarantee socially necessary (supported) services for isolated communities. It's been a death by a thousand cuts - especially since 2010 - but it's blindingly obvious to anyone who relies on buses that the bus is close to death. Totally agree with you but far to late to resuscitate the patient. Far too many powerful lobbies happy to see it die and far too many industry managers BN on a sui code mission on the basis they will simply defect to new paymasters. |
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RE: Arriva North West - Birkenhead Depot
(05/01/2019 08:46)Barney Wrote: I would prefer to call it The Ridley Cuts rather than Beeching for Ridley was the architect of the 1985 Act that resulted in bus deregulation. For those of us with long memories, we were promised a more efficient, streamlined bus service that would would guarantee socially necessary (supported) services for isolated communities. It's been a death by a thousand cuts - especially since 2010 - but it's blindingly obvious to anyone who relies on buses that the bus is close to death. Brian Souter has already said he would walk away from the Tyne and Wear model of reregulation , which would be awkward to implement without one of the biggest public transport groupings. |
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