First Manchester

[M60lad]

RE: First Manchester
Is Maytrees 31 meant to be a Hybrid Route only one of their Hybrid Versa's was out on the route today

Other news is that Buses were majorly affected by both traffic trying to get to Heaton Park for Stone Roses Concert and normal rush hour traffic with some journeys taking double the amount of time they would normally do, I was in Prestwich at about 17:20 tonight and Bury New Road just resembled a car park in both directions, and the roundabout at J17 M62 was virtually at capacity with extremely slow moving traffic on all approaches. When I got to Bury it didnt seem too bad but for some reason about 4 524s arrived at Interchange in the space of 10 minutes, also there were buses parked on various stands going nowhere and at least one bus complete with driver was parked up on Moss Street out of service.

I did hear from one Bury driver (not to sure how true this was) that apparently 135 were suspended for a short period of times this afternoon/evening due to the concert traffic.

Other news is that Oldham Depot B7 66863 is one B7 to be best avoided if anyone sees it in service as its extremely sluggish, in fact if its allocated to a late board and depending what route that board is on its not unusual for a driver to swap it over for a quicker vehicle