Stagecoach Manchester

[Mayneway]

RE: Stagecoach Manchester and Wigan

(01/02/2017 21:47)Dentonian Wrote:  Interesting that you quote 201, but not 203-7. In saying that, I suspect you will find any concentration of vandalism is more to do with time than location. School times are obviously the worst, but I suspect late night is next worst. "Touch wood" its many years since I witnessed anything serious on a bus - I'm actually amazed how rare smoking is even on double deckers. I recall around 2002/3 (when Tridents replaced 100 pax Olympians on the 204, when it was a proper service), we used to get one group of yobs who always got on at the Apollo and got off at Showcase - why they never caught the more frequent 201 or 203, I don't know! - and always used to wait until the very last second before ringing the bell and dashing downstairs. One evening, words were exhanged with the driver and one of the trio opened the cab door and tried to attack him. Trouble (for them) was that the driver wasn't having it, so as soon as one punch was thrown at him, he got off the bus and hit back. Two of the cowards (and we're taking 18+ yo s not young teens) legged it, and the third came off worse. By now the Police had been called, and fortunately (this was when Michael Todd was CC), they showed common sense, treated the driver as the victim and insisted he wasn't fit to drive. We had to wait for the next bus(es), but I don't think too many passengers minded.

I only mentioned the 201 because I travelled on that quite a lot at one point.

I think schools have changed quite a lot in recent years. I'm not for one minute saying school kids are angels but the days of a bus being destroyed in one afternoon by school kids are long gone - and yes I went to Littlemoss school where the Maynes driver famously turned the bus around and drove back to school one afternoon as us unruley kids completly gutted the top deck of a Scania.