Cheshire East proposed funding cuts

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RE: Cheshire East proposed funding cuts

(12/08/2017 19:25)Dentonian Wrote:  Except D&G's 378 could be confused in terms of both Wilmslow passengers thinking the Cheadle Hulme/Stockport service was contiuning seamlessly, and at the Handforth Dean end by Stockport MBC passengers thinking it was running to Handforth Dean rather than Grove Lane.

The D&G destination displays and timetable displays at bus stops would have shown either 378 Wilmslow Station or 378 Handforth Dean so no-one should have got on one expecting it to go to Bramhall or Stockport. The destination displays also display a scrolling list of the main intermediate calling points. The reason given for that bus using the 378 number is the people living in the housing estates in Handforth and Wilmslow were used to the 378 bus taking them to Wilmslow town centre and the D&G 378 route between Handforth and Wilmslow Bank Square was the same as the withdrawn Stagecoach route.

Quote:288 was probabl;y not the best number for the Airport-Alty service, but at least there was a timelapse between the two uses. I also suspect it was part of a general renumbering of Alty services which will eventually form a nice neat grouping. Bearing in mind hat comparatively little of Altrincham's network is commercial compared to other parts of GM.

The 28* numbers used to relate to commercial registrations made after bus deregulation between Altrincham and the Cheshire County Council area
287 was Altrincham to Macclesfield via Wilmslow (2 hourly)
288 was Altrincham to Knutsford via Wilmslow (initially 2 hourly, interworked with 287)
289 was Altrincham to Northwich (still exists under that number but re-routed and less frequent.)