{"id":763304,"date":"2026-09-07T22:14:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T22:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/763304\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T22:14:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T22:14:10","slug":"passengers-back-new-publicly-owned-bus-services-in-st-helens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/763304\/","title":{"rendered":"Passengers back new publicly owned bus services in St Helens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Liverpool student Catherine Howarth, 23, is from St Helens and was full of praise for the new investment, saying the new buses feel better. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I use the bus to go to university every day, so it is important that it is on time. After a certain time of the day they become harder to get, so it would be great if they were more frequent,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said: &#8220;It certainly looks like time and attention has been put into public transport.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Howarth added that she hoped the town would have a night bus, like Liverpool. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liverpool student Catherine Howarth, 23, is from St Helens and was full of praise for the new investment,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":763305,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-763304","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\/763304","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=763304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/763305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=763304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=763304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=763304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}