First Manchester

[Damien]

RE: First Manchester

(16/08/2012 10:32)SF07 Wrote:  Service 36: Bolton - Manchester
The following Monday-Friday departures are retimed to improve timekeeping:
From Bolton the 0544, 0554 & 0602 departures will depart at 0540, 0550 & 0558 respectively
From Manchester the 0700, 0714 & 0722 departures will depart at 0656, 0706 & 0718 respectively

Service 37: Bolton - Manchester
The following Monday-Friday departures are retimed to improve timekeeping:
From Bolton the 0548 departure will depart at 0547
From Manchester the 0651 will depart at 0650

I believe that you can't improve the 36 and 37 time keeping at all, and the Reason will always be Piccadilly gardens. First have talked about gps tracking and inspectors checking along the route. These measures can't control the inbound buses on Piccadilly gardens cn they? 36 and 37 stand is used by god knows how many routes. And very often I blocked and the buses have to go round the block re entering the gardens when the stand is empty. Great ideas first bus have yep. But the practical side of them makes them tough to implement. Whether its a new enviro400 or VolvoB9 running the routes, it won't improve time keeping. Because Piccadilly is. So busy, and that won't change .

Edited to remove excessive quote not of relevance to post - CX54