Stagecoach Manchester and Wigan

[M60lad]

RE: Stagecoach Manchester
A 76 on Oldham Road and Magicbus one at that was probably due to the football at The Etihad Stadium as from what I saw on Saturday afternoon traffic round the Etihad Stadium was being managed by a private security firm and after full time all traffic lights in the surrounding area round the stadium were switched to red including the lights at Briscoe Lane/Alan Touring Way junction, so I'm guessing Stagecoach decided to divert some of the 76s to avoid the problems.

While I'm on about the football, it seems that from just before full-time Ashton New Road is now closed to all traffic to let the masses out safely with 216s being diverted via Alan Touring Way and Ashton Old Road, hopefully this works out better than going down Ashton New Road and getting stuck in all the Match Traffic and a journey having an extra hour or so added to the journey time