Services which don't exist but there could be demand for

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RE: Services which don't exist but there could be demand for

(16/09/2015 20:00)St Helens Rider Wrote:  What Greater Manchester is missing generally is the big Express network they used to have - from Manchester City Centre, there was fast buses to Liverpool, Rawtenstall (at one stage extended to Accrington briefly), Glossop and Blackrod (I think there were others but can't remember all of them) as well as fast circular services around surrounding towns as per 400/1 (Wigan/Bolton - Bury - Rochdale - Ashton - Stockport), 402 (Bolton - Leigh - Warrington) and 500 (Bolton - Eccles - Altrincham - Airport).

Express services are a good idea but they can be troublesome. I can remember most times I travelled on Stagecoach's X36/37 to Glossop arguments broke out between the Driver and passengers who wanted to get off at stops in Ancoats or clayton, not realising it was limited stop.

The 400/401 always looks like a good route on paper but I can remember in it's latter days when run by Bluebus/First it often only carried a handfull of OAP's.

I suppose stagecoach and first would argue that these kinds of cross city services arnt needed with though tickets more readily available and better connections between most frequent services.