Stagecoach Manchester

[gilbert]

RE: Stagecoach Manchester and Wigan
An example of the current unacceptable farce on the 42B/C this morning.Elderly gent[mid 80's with walking stick] patiently sat at the bus stop at the end of Moss Lane Bramhall at 1220 ,waiting for the 1223 42B into Cheadle Hulme and further. Timetable on the bus stop was January 2020 and said 1223. He was horrified when I told him that there was NO bus for another half hour because of the ''route change/cut'' but there was one from Handforth Dean[''that's no use to me''].I said there might be a 379 at the bus stop around the corner but I didn't know what time it went. He stayed at the first bus stop.

The 379 goes from the old 308 bus stop but there is NO time table there at all. After numerous attempts ,I discovered that there was one at 1238 so started walking for ten minutes and stopped two stops further on for the 379 which I waited for till 1245-no sign .So I started walking again -hadn't gone 50 yards when 19391 hurtled around the bend and sailed off into the distance at speed.Ah well,I guess it wasn't meant to be but it remains a total horrendous shambles and neither GmPT and Stagecoach [particularly the former]appear to care.