Stagecoach Manchester

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RE: Stagecoach Manchester and Wigan

(29/03/2017 20:02)Dentonian Wrote:  Eh! You've just said on another thread "Any competition is good competition". Make your mind up.

Coincidentally, Transport Focus have just published this year's Passenger Survey results. These are based on (c.) 40000+ passengers across a large part of the country (outside London), and featuring 53 large or medium Operators, albeit most are subsidiaries of the "Big Five". A (very) cursory glance suggests Passengers are generally most satisfied in Nottingham and Merseyside and least satisfied in Greater Manchester and West Yorkshire. A big surprise given their opposing reputations from inception until about 4 years ago, is that Stagecoach Manchester actually score slightly lower than First Manchester! Perhaps more significantly - Stagecoach Manchester are ranked absolutely rock bottom of the 53 for "On bus journey times".
In the past, I have seen notes showing which individual services across the country are surveyed, and one year amongst the half dozen or so in GM was the 347 - so that indicates this is a proper survey of genuine "bread and butter" services that people rely on for their everyday transport needs - not some politically inspired survey influenced by activists/councillors in trendy south Manchester suburbs.

It is but not when passengers elsewhere are charged 3 times what passengers on the Magic services are charged.