First Manchester

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RE: First Manchester

(14/10/2012 15:33)SF07 Wrote:  82/83s seem to be having reliability issues with the traffic at the Manchester St roundabout. Two Sundays in a row while waiting for a bus at Hollinwood, there's been a gap of 25-30 minutes on a 10 minute frequency service.

Also looks like the Sunday daytime interworking between the 59 and 180/184 at Manchester has ended (presumably since the Enviros started on the 180/184), as I caught a 184 to Failsworth then around an hour later caught the same bus with the same driver in Failsworth on the 180 from Manchester. Thankfully, from a drivers point of view, the long 25 minute waits in Manchester will end in a fortnight when the 180/184 increases to every 15 mins Sunday daytime between Mumps and Manchester.

One other thing I noticed today is that some drivers on the 149 is still displaying Holts as its destination, although I'm sure that there is a destination for Alt programmed, which I think displays as 'Oldham and Alt' or 'Oldham and Alt Estate' wth 'and Alt' displayed on the second line.

Buses still have a lot of the old programming of routes, for example 66853 still wears the old scrolling via points on most routes, another B9TL does too. All destinations have been reformatted but it's just a case of getting to the buses and realising they need changing.

A few buses still hold Holts Estate destinations as we've seen when really it shouldn't anymore.

Here is examples of what was and what should be/is.