daodao
Established Member
The views of Greater Manchester residents should be prioritised when considering the use of local rail lines. I was not suggesting that Southport should only have 1 tph, but routeing a Southport service onto the Castlefield line has meant that the service on another line will have to be reduced from 2 tph to 1 tph.So what you're saying is that a relatively low-used local stopping service should have priority over a much higher-used regional service?
Castlefield isn't just about Manchester, it's about the North's entire regional service. Therefore there is no good reason to prioritise views of people who happen to live within Greater Manchester. It would be equivalent to saying "Thameslink is for people from Mill Hill Broadway, not Bedford".
The reason the CLC line's local stopping service is poorly used is because it is currently too infrequent; local urban rail services need to have a regular minimum frequency of every 30 minutes to be useful.