Stagecoach Manchester

[Mayneway]

RE: Stagecoach Manchester and Wigan

(22/07/2017 20:19)Dentonian Wrote:  Similar to reports on the Gillmoss thread; The Lake Sider Open Topper is apparently due to see service in Manchester on Monday. Being Manchester, there appears to be no local publicity (cue "oh, its on InstantTwitFace" response); differing versions of where it will run, and how difficult in practice it be to actually ride on it. One source states it will "shadow" service journeys, therefore can't use Bus Stations without incurring Penalties.

It's a strange one this as when I first read about it on Friday assumed it was some kind of trail against the catch 22/Higgs open top tours in Manchester. I headed straight for the stagecoach website and as you say there's no mention of it. A mate of mine who works at AZ knew nothing about it so I presume it's more of a press thing rather than aimed at the public. I Carnt see how anyone travelling to work on a Monday morning on the 203 who happens to end up on the open topper is suddenly going to think ...I'm going to cancel my two weeks in Spain next month and and instead go to the lakes simply because Stagecoach use these brilliant open toppers... lol.

There has been a couple of posts on twitter but in all seriousness surly doing this over a weekend would have brought better results?

As for the duplicates not using the bus stations, I would happily bet money on them doing just that. Financial penalties won't bother them.