The 82 bus has been part of people's lives in Liverpool for over 50 years - so it's understandable that when its route was 'temporarily' changed in 2017 many of its regular passengers were concerned.
This - and more extensive changes that are currently being considered by Merseytravel - is the topic of conversation at the bus stop on Park Road, Toxteth, where I am waiting to travel into the city centre.
It quickly becomes obvious how integral to people's everyday lives the 82 really is.
David, from Aigburth, is a regular user of the route. He told me: "I get this bus most days. It's a bus that many people rely on as there aren't any others that go to town straight from here."
Others are concerned about the potential impact on elderly people who have no other method of getting about.
One passenger who uses the 82 bus every day to commute said: "It's the pensioners who are going to be most affected."
Another told me: "If you miss a bus now you're waiting for ages for the next one. I'm only going two stops but I can't walk that far.
"My mother goes into the Post Office on Park Road to collect her pension. If that's gone, the bus doesn't go near any other post office, there'll be lots of pensioners stuck."
During the week, the 82 bus can be a quite quiet journey throughout the day, when I am taking the journey. Mid-morning through to early afternoon in particular, pensioners do appear to be the most prominent group of passengers.
The 82 travels a mainly straight line from Liverpool South Parkway in Speke, heading along Aigburth Road then Park Road and into the city centre.
In 2017, Merseytravel temporarily changed the route to run down St James Street and through to Paradise Street and from there straight into the bus depot at Liverpool ONE.
This was controversial as some residents were unhappy about losing direct access to the train stations and St John's Market. But a series of petitions launched in 2017 and 2018 were unsuccessful.
Merseytravel recently announced it was considering the removal of the 82C route altogether and the amalgamation of the 82B and 82 journeys into one '82' route - that would involve a permanent change to the stops visited. It has been the subject of a public consultation, the outcome of which has not yet been announced.
One passenger told me: "If I want to go to St John's now I have to walk for miles. It's not on."
As the bus ambles gently along Park Road, many regular travellers greet each other as old friends on the front seats, chatting about families and plans for the day, and occasionally putting the world to rights.
A lady with a baby in a buggy gets on, and the child is entertained by half the bus until they get off a few stops later as we move along Park Road and on to Park Lane.
We are now at the point where the route has changed - with the Flat Iron green space on one side of Park Lane and the historic St James in the City church on the other.
In years past the 82 would then cross the junction at Upper Parliament Street on to Great Georges Street.
It would then drive past the Wedding House shop and up towards the Black-E and the Chinese Arch, before meandering along Berry Street, then Renshaw Street up towards the junction of Lime Street and Hanover Street.
Today, however, the bus cuts across the junction and down St James Street, taking in the back of one of Liverpool's fastest growing areas of the Baltic Triangle, before heading towards Paradise Street and the main bus station at Liverpool ONE.
This part of the route, taking in the more recently developed parts of the city, is the change that has caused the most controversy.
Amy, a resident of the Baltic area, is glad of the adjustment. She says: "It's easy for me to get up to Park Road and Lark Lane from here, which is great as I get to go out of the city centre and explore more of Liverpool."
However, not all residents in the southern city outskirts are convinced.
One of them is David, who now has to take two buses to reach his destination.
He says: "With the bus finishing like this at Liverpool One, now if I want to go to Lime Street, I have to get off and get another bus.
"It's inconvenient."
Later in the afternoon I take the return journey back up Park Road.
A 90-year-old woman waiting at the bus stop is unhappy with the changes. She says: "It feels like they forget about us. We don't do the internet, we go into shops, when we can."
The local schools have finished for the day and the quiet, gentle journey becomes something altogether much livelier as kids spill onto the bus in high spirits heading home for the day.
One lady who has been catching the 82 bus for decades told me: "It's always been like this at home time.
"The kids have always made a racket on the bus. I did once myself."
A spokeswoman for Merseytravel said the opportunity to comment on proposals for city centre bus re-routing from January 2020 was live for six weeks until August 2.
The organisation is now looking at the responses alongside the council and bus operators, with a view to final route plans being published later in the autumn. In the meantime, you can still view the initial proposals here and here .
