First Manchester

[james]

RE: First Manchester

(14/10/2012 10:43)Damien Wrote:  

(14/10/2012 09:13)mic Wrote:  

(13/10/2012 22:46)Mayneway Wrote:  I think First have lost the plot at Dukinfield. Over the last couple of days B9s have appeared not only on 348's/350's but on the small circulars such as the 331,389 and tonight the 338 Ashton/crowhill circular which runs right past my house.

Now normally after 7pm the 338 normally carries no more than a couple of passengers per trip, infact the last two trips tonight have passed my house completely empty, so why on earth use a huge double decker bus?? Over the last few months most of Firsts evening services out of Ashton used Solo's, and did perfectly well with them, so why switch to large d/d vehicles which probably use twice as much fuel as a Solo.

On another note, I counted 1 diesel Solo on the 41 this morning and 1 on the 419, what a waste of money these 'green' buses are when they spend half their time off the road. Another complete waste of tax payers money.

the B9s will be route branded soon all they need on 331s are the 54 solos i think

The allocators, seem to be on another planet lol

this wasnt an allocators fault the driver / duty that does evening 331/2/8 comes off a 346/389 duty in the afternoon and the driver it seems couldnt be bothered to change his bus as he was happy with that bus
on a offical note the 346/393 buses should consist of 2 r---sba darts
and the 7 for 346/389/331+3 should be 4 54 plate solos and 3 darts but at the minute with 312 away at qs 2 darts having problems and solos due for mots around now these 7 are currently a mixed bag of everything officially evening circulars should be one of the 54 plate buses but on friday it was a decker allocated to this duty for daytime board only.
but this was a drivers decision to keep it as a decker for the night NOT an allocator