Stagecoach Manchester

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RE: Stagecoach Manchester and Wigan

(01/02/2017 07:08)ant17612 Wrote:  Yet still Middleton has coped with everyone's cast offs and ex Bluebird & JPT Junk since takeover, why now decide to bring in new buses? Why not set the example from the start? I am aware of the situation with the depot yard being a state but planning on moving the older buses back across to depots they came from (59 plate Enviro200s basically) just seems ridiculous.

38 seater Enviro200s struggle on the 11/11A routes as well as other ST routes as it is and I would really hate them to see off the better capacity MAN's which are only 3 or 4 years older and have plenty of life left in them. Maybe converting every route (other than circulars) to double deck is the way forward?

Because Bluebird wasn't fit to introduce brand new vehicles into, the depot facilities were sloppy, the maintanance practices were poor, and back then the only potential money maker was he 112. Now the depots been broht up to a high standard, profits are up a long way from what they were, Middleton-Manchester finally ready for them. As for moving buses back to where they came from, they go where they suit, at the time the MAN's still had life in them, to to give Middleton "the next step up" 36095-108 were introduced, now there required to replace the MAN's so that's what they will do.

New buses is never the first sign of investment, it may appear to be to members of the public but there is a lot of money being spent before the buses.