Manchester bus franchising

[Mayneway]

RE: Manchester bus franchising

(03/02/2023 09:43)KXW212 Wrote:  You can have as many additional routes and better frequencies as you like, but they will still get stuck in the worsening congestion, which Saint Andy is to cowardly to do anything about. There are no bus priorities to accompany the scheme, so nothing will really change, except the buses will be insipid yellow and that doesn't get them through the traffic any quicker.

Tfgm and Manchester City council have recently created a new bus gate on New bridge street just past the courts, and encouraged all bus operators to use it. GREAT! only problem is Salford central station within the bus gate is having 4 months of major building work which means congestion, only difference is cars won’t get stuck in it but buses will.

They recently installed a bus lane on the A6 broad street past Salford uni, great but the bus lane doesn’t start till half way up so in rush our buses sit behind all the cars trying to move over into the outside lane - another pointless exercise.

I could go on but our friend Barney doesn’t see all this through his rose tinted glasses.