Stagecoach Manchester

[djb]

RE: Stagecoach Manchester and Wigan

(29/10/2018 10:36)rod_259 Wrote:  I agree with your comments wholeheartedly and still don’t understand why there are so few cross city services compared with them being the norm in the ‘old days’ when I was a lad! Both First and Stagecoach could provide cross city services but the Local Authorities haven’t helped by virtually closing down streets through the city centre and First have pulled the 42. Even with an Oyster type card you still have to trail from one side of Piccadilly to the other. Also if you work in the Deansgate area there are hardly any decent bus connections apart from limited ones up King Street. There used to be services to Altrichman, Chorlton and South M@nchester despite all the shops, offices and leisure services which h@v3 grown up over the years.

Apologies if the above post seems rather out of place. I posted a long reply to brickmills post, then accidentally deleted it on edit (around the time the reply was posted).

Probably too long to re-type, and to be honest digressing too far from stagecoach.

The general gist was that there is one thing that can Persuade lost or new fare paying bus users to return, and it’s not new buses, high frequency services, or route numbers that stay the same since the invention of the motorbus / don’t conflict with one somewhere else in the borough. These are the passengers that can stabilise the industry, not loyalty to car-less passengers (which would be maintained in a stable system anyway)

It’s a decent, dynamic, flexible multimodal ticketing system (like oyster), combined with reliable use of technology for real-time.