Diamond Bus North West

[South Lancs Travel]

RE: South Lancs Travel

(23/12/2012 10:08)Nicholas Wrote:  The withdrawn journeys are at school times anyway, traditionally when there was a big gap in the timetable on schooldays. All this does is reverse the last significant change (although there will be no school holiday mid-afternoon provision). D&G don't seem to do what other independents do, and that is fill in gaps during the school holidays.

Not much point filling in the gaps on most services as there are very few passengers use school holiday only journeys, most probably because most of the general public don't know or care when the schools are off and don't want to take the chance of turning up for a bus that may not be running. It's more efficient to simply get the driver to start later or finish earlier, and the overall reduction in hours for the whole week allows more drivers to take holidays.

The withdrawn trips on service 300 will still run on Saturdays and during school holidays as loadings for the Trafford Centre do increase at these times, plus the TC Bus Station are very good at keeping passengers up to date with which buses are running.

Chris.