First Manchester

[Mrboo]

RE: First Manchester

(19/06/2019 06:43)M60lad Wrote:  I actually despute the fact that its rare you need a decker on any of Oldham's routes, I work in Manchester myself and while during the day you could get away with Singles on most routes/duties in the evening peaks deckers are needed especially if a service is missed/not running for whatever reason.

I finish work at 18:00 and if its running I catch 18:09 182 home which is booked Streetlite due to the fact that it comes off 6 (Kirkholt Circulars) in the afternoon and I've seen and been on it when its left Manchester full and standing, also if its missing the next bus 24 at 18:23 can pick up the load that 182 should have got, one good thing is that now some of the Streetlites have gone to Queens Road the 24 is more often than not now a double decker which is what that duty needs rather that the Streetlite or B7 that used to be used on it.

The problem I've found is that while singles are in use on most Manchester duties now, double deckers (Enviro400s & Geminis) are going round on 350 which I think could happily have singles on it most of the day but you can't have everything I suppose and I think the only reason why 350 has mostly deckers on it is due to Schools traffic in the morning and in the afternoon.

And the point you made if a bus did not turn up you would need a bigger bus so really a single decker could do job now am not talking a 33 seater streetlight so long as duty`s get covered a single decker will cope. remember there was a point they did buy singles in the past. If I was buying buses I would buy single deckers and remove all seats apart from rear of bus over wheels so you have lots of space for standing and wheelchairs/buggies. like you will get passengers upset that they have to stand at peak but off peak you give wheelchairs and buggies space. and there still space to sit