Neil Williams <pacer142@gmail.com> wrote:

>On Mon, 19 Sep 2011 11:43:42 -0700 (PDT), allantracy 
><allanbintracy@ireland.com> wrote:
>> Birmingham is surely the largest city in Europe to rely more or less
>> wholly on buses for its public transport.
>
>Manchester does very heavily.  The catchment area of Metrolink is 
>tiny (though improving).


Liverpool also.  Merseyrail serves the Wirral well, plus there are the
Southport and Ormskirk lines, but the other rail links into Liverpool
have very limited catchments and most people within the city boundary
use buses.  Blame the planners of the 1960s for building so many
housing estates on the edges of the city that were completely reliant
on buses for their public transport needs.