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Have your say on proposals for a modern Knowsley bus network

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People in Knowsley have the opportunity to comment on proposals to make the area’s bus network simpler and clearer.

Have your say

You can view and comment on the Merseytravel proposals through the online survey.  All comments must be received by 5pm on Monday 19th March.

Drop in events

There will also be three drop-in events where you can speak to Merseytravel staff about the proposals and give your feedback. These will take place on the following days between 10am – 3pm:

13 March – Halewood One Stop Shop
14 March – Tesco Prescot
19 March – Huyton Bus Station

This follows events across Knowsley in November and December 2017, which saw over 200 people attend and offer their feedback on their frequency and pattern of bus use, including those services publically funded by Merseytravel, and what might make them use buses more.

Transforming bus services

Knowsley is the final area to be reviewed as part of a wider review of the whole Liverpool City Region bus network which began in May 2016 and covered St Helens, Sefton, Liverpool and Wirral.

Historically bus routes have been considered on a piecemeal basis and the idea is to consider the commercial network and the supported network – that which relies on public subsidy via Merseytravel – as a whole for the first time, to ensure it best reflects current working and living patterns, new developments and how they are served.

This is one of the undertakings of the Bus Alliance, a formal partnership with operators Arriva and Stagecoach, with the aim of transforming bus services to encourage more people to take the bus. However, the bus reviews involve all bus operators.

Part of the review has been looking at the current supported bus network, those services publically subsidised through Merseytravel, as they aren’t considered  viable to run on a commercial basis, and considering how increasingly limited public resources can be focused where there is most need.

Impacts of changes have been mitigated by re-routing some existing commercial services where possible to negate the need for a service supported by public funding.

To make the network easier to understand there are also plans to make the evening network reflect the daytime services both in route and number. The proposals endeavour to ensure that everyone is within reasonable distance of a bus service.

The proposed changes would come into effect in July 2018.

Read the full Merseytravel article here.

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