First Manchester

[Mayneway]

RE: First Manchester
As a daily bus user and enthusiast I think there is still a very large gap performance wise between Stagecoach Manchester and First Manchester performance wise. The idea that new vehicles, leather seats, wifi and of course the lowering of the very high fares would fix the problems and make all good don't even scratch the surface. It's clearly management issues.
The driver shortage is nothing new and has been rumbling on now for about a year - yet nothing is done about it.
Journeys being dropped is nothing new either, certainly at Pionner anyway. It's extremely poor that they keep getting away with it - and on tendered journeys too! I have to say, as someone who lives on Chowhill, I never saw one journey missed when Speedwell and Stotts ran the 41/337 yet First seen really good at loosing the odd journey or running the route out of service because its late or traffics bad. Or in coldest darkest December, the fact passengers were left waiting at bus stops for buses that wouldn't be turning up because the drivers were attending the Christmas doo - absolutly crazy.

I've never personally encountered a dropped journey by Stagecoach yet over the last 4 or so years, it's 5 and counting with First!