Stagecoach Manchester and Wigan

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RE: Stagecoach Manchester

(01/02/2013 19:28)K101HUM Wrote:  

(01/02/2013 19:00)WhiteVanMan Wrote:  I would like to see Stagecoach increase double deck operation in Wigan, after all when it was GMPTE (before First), it was nearly all double deck.

Somewhat of a deja vu. This trend is far from exclusive to Greater Manchester towns i.e Wigan, but also apparent in far more densely populated cities with routes of significantly higher patronage. Namely...Liverpool!

would love liverpool to start using more of the likes of solos,just to see the reaction on here

anyway,back To the topic.In this day and age,DD Cost a lot in fuel & maitenance to what a SD Cost,i remember someone on here saying when it first broke out over stagecoach buying wigan that apart from school services,most wigan locals could be solo operated,now ive only visitied wigan 2 or 3 times within the last 5 years or so,so for all i know passenger numbers might have gone up,but when i last went there was arrows going around with about 10-15 people on.If stagecoach can get away with using cheap to run mini/midi buses,then there not going to chuck deckers on these routes just to say they operate aload of deckers are they