North West Bus Service Changes due to Coronavirus outbreak

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RE: North West Bus Service Changes due to Coronavirus outbreak
D&G Bus changes for Mon-Fri next week:

Services 1, 1A, 2, 8A, 9, 14W, 32X, 42, 43, 88 and 89 will run to Saturday timetables.

Service 16 will run to a Saturday timetable but the 1930 journey from Hanley to Leek and the 2015 journey from Leek to Hanley will not run.

Services 8, 12, 14, 82, 85 and 94 will run to special timetables.

Services 14A, 26, 33, 35, 50, 70, 71, 72, 73, 94A, 188, 288, 316, 317, 318, 319, 841 and the Handforth Dean Free Bus will operate to normal timetables.

Services 8B, 38, 40, 130, 836 and X41 will not operate.

Contract services 410, 445, CC5, CC8, GP1, S71194 and S80319 will operate to normal timetables.

Contract services E1 and E2 will operate to the 2019/2020 winter route and timetable but the 0030 journey will not operate.

The contracted service between Bunbury and Sir John Deane's College will not operate.

Not sure what they mean about normal 188 timetable - given it's school days only and Knutsford Academy will be closed!

Also disappointing that they not running the 130 at all and running the the 88 to a Saturday timetable, given those are buses serving Macclesfield Hospital and while non-essential operations are being cancelled and visiting is being reduced there will still be people who have out-patient appointments - some of whom may have requested a specific time to fit around the weekday bus timetables. It will also mean only 5 buses between the town centre and the hospital in each direction all day and obviously anyone from Wilmslow with an appointment to attend will have to go via Knutsford if they need to use the bus and those from Handforth and Alderley Edge will not have an easy journey to Macclesfield Hospital using public transport!