(31 Aug 2021, 3:31 pm)Stanleyone wrote In the years I worked at CLS the only destination that the folk of pelaw estate went to was chester Town centre. I'm pretty sure nobody travels between Pelton Fell and Pelaw even when the same bus done both the 28 & 34 on a Sunday. As for the town service being diverted to cover pelaw, it's a DCC service, if it could've been done it would have.
Whether the folk of Pelaw Estate travel beyond front st or not, creating a barrier, such as having two different route numbers, isn't going to help encourage use between the two points - even with Pelton Fell being part of the catchment area for the CoE School just off Pelaw Bank.
When you were based at Chester, how many cars did you see coming from under the viaduct, before taking a left and left again up Pelaw Bank?
What about the times you were coming down Pelaw Bank and got stuck behind all those cars trying to take a right before the mini roundabout and forcing their way out at North Burns towards the viaduct?
It costs the operator absolutely nothing to have the 28 extend to Pelaw Estate and create new, through links. No matter how insignificant it may appear.
I posted the following elsewhere on the forum today.
Yes, it is just one example - but it is possibly a snapshot of the issues commuters face in that because there's never been an established, regular connection between two points, operators think that should never be a regular connection between the two points.
Except, maybe there should be. Or at least something that is better than what we have now.
It's about more than just the good folk of Pelaw Estate and Chester front street.