First Manchester

[M60lad]

RE: First Manchester
After looking at the damage to the Vantage bus involved this morning and speaking to a couple of friends of mine its looking likely this latest one could be off the road for a while if what I've heard of true this is the current situation with the Vantage Fleet:

1> One is off the road needing a new back end

2> One is off the road needed a new front dome after the incident in Manchester recently

3> Today's will be off the road maybe needing a new front end

Also not to sure how true but I'm led to belive that some parts including Windsreens are not easily availble over here at the moment which could delay vehicles being fixed.

Not to sure of the situation with the spare Geminios 36279 & 36280 and I did hear that maybe one of them is or was off the road.

Looking at the current situation I'm wondering whether First Leeds will send something over to cover as at this rate First Manchester are going to running out of suitable vehicles to opertate the service and operate it along the busway unless they start using standard vehicles on some duties obviously using the busway diversion.