First Manchester

[Mikeonthebuses]

RE: First Manchester

(09/10/2019 19:22)SF07 Wrote:  The GMCA committee meeting giving details of the proposed changes by First to services in Oldham area from 27 October:

• 80/81A: Service 81A is withdrawn and replaced between Oldham and Holts Estate via Greenacres and Lees by service 80. Service continues to run every 30 minutes.
• 81: Frequency between Oldham and Manchester reduced to half-hourly. Oldham-Derker section withdrawn. TfGM looking at replacement services for Oldham-Derker.
• 82/83: Changes to Monday-Saturday daytime journeys on service 83, with service continuing to run every 10 minutes between Manchester and Oldham Mumps, while the Oldham-Sholver section will be replaced by service 82, running every 15 minutes. Evening and Sunday journeys remain as full Sholver-Manchester route, as service 83.
• 84: New service 84 introduced, partly replacing services 180/184. Service runs every 10 minutes between Manchester and Grotton, continuing to Uppermill 3 times per hour (possibly every 20 minutes). Sunday journeys run every 15 minutes between Manchester and Grotton, continutes to Uppermill 3 times per hour (as existing 184 Sunday service). Monday-Saturday evening journeys run half-hourly between Manchester and Uppermill, while Sunday evening journeys run every 30 minutes between Manchester and Grotton, continuing to Uppermill every hour.
• 180: Service curtailed to run between Greenfield and Oldham with frequency reduced to hourly. Evening/Sunday journeys withdrawn with Greenfield-Oldham link provided by service 350, with connections at Uppermill for service 84 to Grotton and Lees.
• 184: Service curtailed to run between Huddersfield and Oldham only with journeys between Uppermill, Oldham and Manchester replaced by service 84. Sunday journeys to/from Huddersfield provided by service 84.
• 425: Route curtailed to run between Oldham and Holts Estate via Glodwick, with Monday-Saturday daytime frequency increased to every 10 minutes.
• 426: New service introduced, replacing service 425 between Oldham and Fitton Hill. Monday-Saturday daytime frequency reduced to every 20 minutes compared to existing 425 service.
  

https://democracy.greatermanchester-ca.g...rt%20A.pdf

EDIT:

Changes are now on the First website too: https://www.firstgroup.com/greater-manch...ce-changes

What a total shambles from first leaving pretty much everywhere on the other side of Oldham without any Manchester buses or through services. it only going to get worst with decline in bus usaging