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Impera Bus & Coach was a bus company based in Moreton, Wirral, Merseyside. It operated registered local bus services on the Wirral Peninsula (with some routes also serving Liverpool), a number of which were under contract to Merseytravel. Impera also operated school services on the Wirral and a range of private hires & excursions. ==History== Formed in 2011, Impera expanded its network of tendered services rapidly, initially and mainly based on the north of the Wirral Peninsula. On 24 April 2011, Impera won its first Merseytravel contract, service 203〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://merseytravel.gov.uk/pdf/tt_200/203%20Woodside%20-%20Seacombe%20(from%2024%20April%202011).pdf )〕 which operated from Seacombe to Woodside Bus Station. Impera provided early morning journeys including on Sundays. In order to assist with this commitment, Impera borrowed two Alexander Dennis Enviro 300s from JPT of Middleton, with additional hired vehicles thereafter from Diamond Bus in Birmingham and a leasing company. Six months later, on 10 October 2011, Impera gained further Merseytravel contracts 107, 207 & 208,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://merseytravel.gov.uk/pdf/tt_200/207%20Woodside%20-%20New%20Brighton%20(from%2010%20October%202011).pdf )〕 which operate from New Brighton to Moreton Town Meadow Lane (Impera operating early mornings Monday to Saturday). Impera also commenced operating the 164 and 165 from Woodside Bus Station to New Ferry Shorefields during the evening, including Sundays evenings. On 4 April 2012, Impera began its first commercial bus service, from New Brighton to West Kirby, via Liscard Village, Wallasey Village, Leasowe Merseyrail Station, Moreton Cross, Meols Merseyrail Station and Hoylake. This was due to operated daily every 30 minutes during the daytime. This service was numbered 39 and continued to run, albeit in a modified form. The evening service was replaced by modified 39A.〔()〕 On 13 August 2012, Impera intended to start a second commercial service, 30, between Liverpool Sir Thomas Street and Saughall Massie via Moreton, Leasowe, Wallasey and Liscard. This was designed to operate during the daytime Monday to Saturday at 30-minute intervals. On 24 August 2012, however, Impera's Mark Steens apologised that, "The route was never supposed to start, it was planned and registered by a former manager, and I had tried to cancel the registration but without success, thus giving Impera 10 days to find the additional staff to operate this service. We can only try our best but it is a true fact that our tendered operations must take priority over commercial operations. That is why the 30 service is currently disrupted I am doing my utmost to rectify this situation by employing more drivers." The service was officially withdrawn on 10 September 2012 and replaced by Impera's third commercial service, the 39A. On 17 December 2012, Impera introduced a fourth commercial service, 1A from New Brighton to Birkenhead Bus Station, again at a Monday to Saturday daytime frequency of every 30 minutes.〔()〕 The following month, on 28 January 2013, Impera began yet another commercial service, 27 from Moreton Rail Station to Birkenhead Bus Station via Moreton Cross, Saughall Massie, Upton, Beechwood, Claughton Village, running on Monday to Saturday daytimes every 30 minutes.〔()〕 At the same time, Impera cancelled its 39A, replacing it with an evening 39 service. As from 29 April 2013, Impera introduced its sixth and seventh commercial services. First was the Service 16 Wallasey Harrison Drive to Birkenhead via Wallasey Village, Liscard Village, Seacombe Ferry and Woodside Ferry (hourly, Mondays to Saturdays daytimes).〔()〕 The second was a 30-minute Monday to Saturday daytime 98, between Moreton and Liverpool via Beechwood, Noctorum, Oxton and Birkenhead.〔()〕 Simultaneously, Impera withdrew part of the 47 to serve only Saughall Massie, the 98 henceforward maintained a direct link between Beechwood and Moreton. Alongside this, Impera service 1A (New Brighton - Birkenhead) was extended to serve Liverpool City Centre and it therefore no longer served Woodside. Impera also introduced a new Sunday service〔()〕 and a new evening timetable of current Arriva service 411 was to be introduced by Impera. On 2 June 2013, Merseytravel withdrew its service 101 as operated by A2B Travel, which follows the same route as service 411.〔()〕 Finally in April, Impera varied its 39 such that it served Hoylake Road rather than Town Meadow Lane. This allowed some co-orindation between the 39 and 411. Service X39 was re-numbered 39C〔()〕 Impera operated a significant mileage on behalf of Merseytravel, including contracted school services. Impera ceased trading at 1700 on 2 October 2013. Its contracted and local bus and school routes were initially operated by Arriva, Avon and Stagecoach on an emergency basis, with some commercial mileage not replaced. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Impera」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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