Stagecoach Manchester

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RE: Stagecoach Manchester

(27/08/2014 19:10)Dentonian Wrote:  Bearing in mind we are still in the school holidays, its hoped the influx of new buses (at least 10 of Stockport's Enviro200s had reached Hyde Road by Sunday) will be in service PDQ. After many years of waiting for complaints that TFGM wrongly show First services as low-floor on Bus Guides, its suddenly become a problem with Stagecoach - and there are only five (except Jpt) in a fleet of over 700! What happened to the MAN's that were in and out of the Reserve fleet?

I had this debate with someone earlier on today regarding the use of high floor elderly deckers. Forgetting about the 2 B10Ms at Stockport there seems to be rougly 5 Olympians in use at Middleton. On paper at least their are 5 low floor vehicles in reserve at Wigan that could be used. There's also the 5 Tridents at AZ that have seen very little use since the schools finished in July, and given that Middleton apparently use them for football duties surly it would make more sense to let Middleton operate the former JPT schools and have the Tridents which can still be used on schools but can also be used at peak.

I would have thought that once the CMA gave the green light the two elderly Olympians would have quicky disapeared but the way things are going they will probably gain Stagecoach vinyls.