Free travel for armed forces personnel on Stagecoach buses Stagecoach Manchester will commemorate Remembrance Sunday by offering free travel to all armed forces personnel and veterans across the city. Since the start of this month, the company’s vehicles have carried commemorative poppies below the windscreen. These will be seen on buses till the 14 November.
Category: Bus Operation
North Manchester Bus Fare Changes: Why Three is a Tragic Number
First/Diamond/Go North West ticketing agreement ends in New Year For Greater Mancunian bus, train, and tram passengers, there is nothing peculiar about the 02 January 2020. As it is the first working day of 2020, it is at that point of the year when our bus, train and tram fares go up.
Search for a Stagecoach Star: Passengers’ Vote Introduced for Employee Awards
Is the driver on your local Stagecoach Manchester route helpful to a fault? Now’s your chance to give him or her some recognition. If you get the bus often enough, there’s every chance you might know the driver. You might know his or her fellow colleague who maintains the buses at Hyde Road depot. Or…
Put This On a Badge! The Better Buses Badge Making Experience
Show some love for your local bus route in a crafty way Within a week of the launch of Greater Manchester Combined Authority’s Bus Franchising consultation, there has been several activities to advance the case for London-style bus franchising. Since this summer, Better Buses For Greater Manchester have stated their case with accountability and improved…
Publicly Controlled Buses: A 2020 Vision of Greater Manchester’s Franchised Bus Network
East of the M60 looks at how Greater Manchester’s buses will be franchised On the 14 October (this coming Monday), the people of Greater Manchester will be able to take back control of their local bus network. From this day forward, Transport for Greater Manchester and the Office of the Mayor of Greater Manchester (using…
Bury and Rochdale Bus Service Changes, 27 October 2019
Special Report: Transdev’s radical renumbering of local buses in Bury and Rochdale Bury and Rochdale local services renumbered; Plus tweaks to other bus routes in Rochdale and Bury. For the first time in East of the M60‘s existence, we shall be looking at the service changes affecting Bury and Rochdale passengers. As many of our…
Tameside and Glossop Bus Service Changes, 27 October 2019
Welcome return for Hyde – Tintwistle – Glossop bus route 397 service revived after eight year gap; 396 rerouting in Smallshaw and Hurst? Tweaks to 409’s daytime service. If you have read about FirstGroup’s changes for the Oldham and Saddleworth area, you will be happy to find that the latest service changes in Tameside and…
Oldham and Saddleworth Bus Service Changes, 27 October 2019
Saddleworth at sharp end of First service cuts Triple whammy of cuts for 180 route; 184 becomes Oldham – Huddersfield route with Sunday extension to Manchester; 425 route split and cut back. Have First Greater Manchester saved its most severe service cuts for Halloween? If you live in Greenfield, get County Cars’ number added to…
Bus Regulation The Musical: The Review
How Ellie Harrison’s show brought us fifty years of Greater Manchester transport history on wheels Bus Regulation The Musical. Manchester Art Gallery, 28 September 2019 (2pm and 3pm). Produced by Ellie Harrison. I could think of several ways of spending half an hour of my leisure time. One is listening to the entire ‘B’ side…
Have Your Say on Bus Franchising in Greater Manchester
Bus franchising consultation to begin in October Next month, the people of Greater Manchester will be involved in a far-reaching consultation to transform the city region’s bus routes.
Oldham and Tameside Bus Service Changes Extra
South Pennine Community Transport and MCT Travel service changes Since our earlier look at Tameside’s Bus Service Changes, three more changes were announced.
Great Unrealised Mancunian Transport Plans: The Not So Perfect Ten
In 1984, we were promised jetpacks; we got Pacer units instead We haven’t had a Not So Perfect Ten on here for a while. With urban public transport forever in the news agenda, our latest NSP10 reflects this. Given how Northern Powerhouse Rail and Manchester Piccadilly’s 15th and 16th platforms hang in the balance, we…
