{"id":761762,"date":"2026-09-06T10:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T10:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/761762\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T10:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T10:14:09","slug":"merseysides-first-publicly-owned-buses-hit-the-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/761762\/","title":{"rendered":"Merseyside&#8217;s first publicly owned buses hit the road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The first buses under public control in Merseyside have hit the road in St Helens.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Liverpool City Region Combined Authority (LCRCA) said the &#8220;rollout of the first locally-run bus services&#8221; in the area is the &#8220;biggest change to public transport in the region for more than a generation&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A new X3 Express service service to Liverpool John Lennon Airport has begun, as well as an early morning express journey to Southport and an evening return.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The LCRCA It said there would be bigger buses on some routes and improved access to Edge Hill University and Ormskirk, as well as more links to local hospitals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Metro Mayor Steve Rotheram said public control over the bus network would lead to greater accountability, and a clear governance structure. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Performance data will be regularly published and scrutinised, and there will be easy-to-use systems for public feedback.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Buses and the Merseyrail trains are branded with the name and logo &#8216;Metro&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But an LCRCA spokesman said there was no official brand name yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first buses under public control in Merseyside have hit the road in St Helens. The Liverpool City&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":761763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-761762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=761762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/761763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=761762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=761762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=761762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}