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Post by Deleted on Aug 4, 2008 16:07:13 GMT
Id like to know why this service isnt more used or more frequent. First of all it is probably the cheapest way from Loughton to Harlow,. If someone caught the tube from Loughton to Epping, they would have to pay the tube fare, and then a £4 single using one of the other routes to Harlow. From Loughton, it costs around £4 return to Harlow on the H1. It just makes sense to use it. Also, there is a very reduced service on saturdays, which i would have thought it would be busier with shoppers etc. Its a great shame as the timetable keeps getting reduced, and I think that it will become unprofitable  |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 4, 2008 19:42:23 GMT
Id like to know why this service isnt more used or more frequent. First of all it is probably the cheapest way from Loughton to Harlow,. If someone caught the tube from Loughton to Epping, they would have to pay the tube fare, and then a £4 single using one of the other routes to Harlow. From Loughton, it costs around £4 return to Harlow on the H1. It just makes sense to use it. Also, there is a very reduced service on saturdays, which i would have thought it would be busier with shoppers etc. Its a great shame as the timetable keeps getting reduced, and I think that it will become unprofitable I think that you have answered your own question. IF it was better patronised, then frequency would be increased. However, as passenger numbers fall, it frequency WILL be reduced. This IS and Essex County Council supported route isn't it? Imperial must clock up a LOT of dead mileage to/from the route, so I don't think it can be a commercial route. |
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Post by john on Aug 4, 2008 23:44:14 GMT
Id like to know why this service isnt more used or more frequent. First of all it is probably the cheapest way from Loughton to Harlow,. If someone caught the tube from Loughton to Epping, they would have to pay the tube fare, and then a £4 single using one of the other routes to Harlow. From Loughton, it costs around £4 return to Harlow on the H1. It just makes sense to use it. Also, there is a very reduced service on saturdays, which i would have thought it would be busier with shoppers etc. Its a great shame as the timetable keeps getting reduced, and I think that it will become unprofitable I think that you have answered your own question. IF it was better patronised, then frequency would be increased. However, as passenger numbers fall, it frequency WILL be reduced. This IS and Essex County Council supported route isn't it? Imperial must clock up a LOT of dead mileage to/from the route, so I don't think it can be a commercial route. The H1 is indeed an ECC route. It's also partly replaced on Sundays by route 541, another ECC route, which is operated by Arriva EH&E |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 6, 2008 13:20:32 GMT
the Harlowride website says that Travel with Hunny (owned by Imperial Buses) are setting up new route 55 from Harlow to Loughton, just like Imperial's H1, aswell as N55 which will operate on friday and saturday nights as a night bus service and the L55 which will operate to Lakeside
" Advance notice of a new operator to the area coming shortly. Travel with Hunny will be introducing new route 55 from Monday 8th September. The basic service will be an hourly Monday to Friday Harlow to Loughton/Debden circle, followed with a evening and night N55 variant on Friday and Saturday nights, and an L55 Lakeside shopping trip on Saturdays. Vehicles are expected to be ex-Stagecoach Scania single decks M298TWB and M953DRG in a blue and gold livery with route branding. "
Somehow i can't see this working, especially as there is already a lightly used service to Harlow. The Night bus service will probably see hardly any passsengers, although the L55 Lakeside service could do quite well, especially after the success of Imperial's H2 Christmas trips to Lakeside.
The Wright-bodied Scania buses will be quite interesting to see.
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