Euro 6 engines only allowed in Greater Manchester from next May

[Mrboo]

RE: Euro 6 engines only allowed in Greater Manchester from next May

(22/06/2021 17:15)iMarkeh Wrote:  The news article yesterday on ITV specifically noted that the illegal levels were on Mancunion Way which is interesting to blame commercial vehicles when infact, Mancunion Way is mostly private vehicles. Andy Burnham backed it up by saying that petrol cars built post 2014 would already be compliant so it would be useless including private vehicles. What about diesel cars or the thousands of cars built pre 2014? Absolute clown.



RRBs via Warrington should be ok as Northern terminate at Newton Le Willows and TFW are normally ran by Manchester based operators.
RRBs via Northwich however..... When they go down, that will cause some upset as it's often random companies running these.

Standbys will become more interesting though as they can of course be sent anywhere at any time and so when they get booked, they can think they are only going so far and actually end up being sent into Manchester with no notice. That'll be fun working that into the price. I've seen it a few times in the past month with a standby booked for Chester to Shrewsbury, actually going and doing a Holyhead run for a last minute cancellation. If something happened unexpected, this could easily be a Manchester run.

Not always that case as Routes are worked on EU ( Tacto) but if they have a service bus it would be limited to 50km When Stagecoach Manchester or Arriva and Blackpool Transport do Rail replacement standby they are limited to the routes they are willing to do.

The only Rail Replacement Company that works on GB is Go Ahead London (North). As the Running Boards are setup with 5min breaks along route with the same bus and driver used on each leg.