By default, RUSs are established by the Office of Rail Regulation (ORR) unless the latter objects within 60 days.
Main interventions to solve this problem will also provide adequate handling weekday peak traffic.
Some peak services will be increased in length (2) in the very short term using rolling stock displaced from elsewhere; by 2014 the fleet will be replaced with a prospective additional 14 3-car units.
The Chester-Liverpool off-peak service frequency will be doubled to every 15 minutes (3,5), with some of these made partly semi-fast.
A study is being conducted by Merseyrail into a short extension of the electrified route east of Kirby to Headbolt Lane, where a park-and-ride scheme would be built (3,4).