Stagecoach Manchester

[Mayneway]

RE: Stagecoach Manchester and Wigan

(24/10/2015 12:07)joe_alker Wrote:  Not to mention the fact that extending it to the hospital means the service will be used by students attending Ashton Sixth Form (myself included) and this will increase loadings considerable. Considering that the morning 231 can be full leaving the station even when it is a enviro400 putting single deckers on isn't going to help.

I think you have hit the nail on the head.
Forget pensioners traveling to and from the hospital. I think this extension is a bit of a sneaky hit a First. A lot of students travel between Ashton and the college and currently the 231's which are 2 an hour off peak carry some students but the majority seem to use Firsts 350. By offering another direct link to Ashton sixth form college I'm sure it will have an effect, plus the stagecoach 346 should enter the hospital at the rear so would travel along Darnton road directly past the college entrance unlike the 350 that simply enters the hospital on fountain street and entails a walk for students.

To be honest given the number of students that travel between Ashton and Tameside college during the day and the AZ allocaters obsession with allocating Enviro200's to the very overcrowded 236/237, I've always wondered why First don't run some 348's along Beaufot road past the Tameside college, I rearly see many people boarding on Crickets lane or outside Indian Ocean.