I have received an enquiry from a resident about the 620 bus which runs through Ashton to Bolton - I quote his enquiry below.
I would like to hear from other members of the public who use this service and would be similarly inconvenienced.
GMPTE have recently announced that the 620 bus service between St Helens and Atherton is to be withdrawn and replaced with additional 320 services between St Helens and Ashton.
Whilst it may look that the PTE have taken steps to reduce the impact on passengers, this now leaves no direct service between Platt Bridge > Hindley (although the 320 will run to Platt Bridge then into Wigan).
This essential public service will now leave several people who rely on this service for work and other activities out of pocket by having to use other operators and have a serious time impact as this would now mean having to travel into Wigan to get a further outbound service to Hindley. With the traffic congestion on routes into Wigan these days, be this through Warrington Road (Marus Bridge), or via Ince (i.e. by going via Platt Bridge), this, I have figured will add around an extra hour to any journey.
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Thanks for your interest in this matter. As the original sender of the e-mail, I would like to point out there is no proposal afoot here. This is happening on 31 August, unless by some miracle the PTE start listening to the groundswell of support in keeping the service that I am hearing elsewhere (several other constituents have already contacted Ian McCartney in relation to this).
You too can support this by signing the online petition at http://www.PetitionOnline.com/SO620/petition.html
Article now covered at http://www.wigantoday.net/wigannews/Angry-reaction-over-bus-withdrawals.4423445.jp which shows further the impact this will have on the public (Comment 2)
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I don't think the Raving Mad Loony Monster Democratic Socialist Conservative Nationalist party would get very far in Ashton ;)
hi, i am the now solo admin of photos for buses in the uk. i have a protest page and at one time i recall the 620 being on my protest page, gpmte considered for 2 months if to bring to back to bolton then said it would cost them to much to keep up so i tried to get it to deane and that was a total fail, maybe if i had more support i would be able pull it back up, if your intressted in seeing what i do visit the website www.photosforbuses.webs.com
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