{"id":36978,"date":"2023-05-04T18:56:48","date_gmt":"2023-05-04T18:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2023\/05\/04\/eurovision-2023-late-night-trains-buses-and-ferries-to-run\/"},"modified":"2023-05-04T18:56:48","modified_gmt":"2023-05-04T18:56:48","slug":"eurovision-2023-late-night-trains-buses-and-ferries-to-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=36978","title":{"rendered":"Eurovision 2023: Late night trains, buses and ferries to run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Merseyrail services will run into the early hours after the final and services will also run until after midnight on the night of the &#8220;Big Eurovision Welcome&#8221; on 7 May.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Liverpool City Region buses will also continue on key routes until the early hours following the events on 7 and 13 May.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Mersey Ferries will also operate late night services on 7 and 13 May. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Mr Rotheram said a &#8220;world class spectacular&#8221; deserved &#8220;world class transport&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">&#8220;The chance to host a global spectacle like the Eurovision Song Contest is an opportunity that doesn\u2019t come around very often \u2013 especially for a city in the UK \u2013 that\u2019s why so many others tried but were unsuccessful in bidding to host it,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">\u201cBy organising these additional late-night services in our region, we\u2019re ensuring that Eurovision fans and locals will get the service they deserve and won\u2019t have to cut the party short\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Ukraine <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/entertainment-arts-61452678\" class=\"ssrcss-k17ofw-InlineLink e1no5rhv0\">won the Eurovision contest in 2022<\/a>, but it was deemed too dangerous to stage the event in the winning country this year following the Russian invasion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">It will be the first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-64402700\" class=\"ssrcss-k17ofw-InlineLink e1no5rhv0\">Eurovision Song Contest<\/a> to be held in the UK for 25 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">The competition is made up of two semi-finals and the grand final &#8211; all of which will be broadcast live.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">This year&#8217;s semi-finals will take place on 9 May and 11 May, with ten countries from each show going through to the final.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cxxyjedlz0no?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Merseyrail services will run into the early hours after the final and services will also run until after midnight on the night of the &#8220;Big Eurovision Welcome&#8221; on 7 &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36979,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36978"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}