Manchester bus franchising

[Mrboo]

RE: Manchester bus franchising
So looking at 163 what plan for this is GNW taking it on early or is there going to be a gap or was the 163 not a route that was on the franchising list? So could be lost forever? or maybe it been planned to move from Bolton anyway?

(12/01/2023 19:15)SF07 Wrote:  Following the announcement of the new contracts to run bus services in Bolton from September 2023 being awarded to Go North West, Diamond and Vision Bus are now proposing changes to services in Bolton from April 2023 with several services reduced in frequency and several other services having all commercially-run journeys withdrawn.

Changes proposed:

8 (Diamond): Monday-Saturday daytime journeys reduced to every 15 minutes
21 (Diamond): Withdraw all commercial journeys. Subsided journeys remain unchanged
36 (Diamond): Monday-Friday daytime journeys reduced to every 15 minutes
37 (Diamond): Monday-Friday daytime journeys reduced to every 15 minutes
163 (Diamond): Withdraw all commercial journeys. Subsided journeys remain unchanged
520 (Diamond): Withdraw all commercial journeys. Subsided journeys remain unchanged
524 (Diamond): Monday-Saturday daytime journeys reduced to every 15 minutes
527 (Vision Bus): Withdraw all commercial journeys. Subsided journeys (including service 525) remain unchanged
561/562 (Diamond): Withdraw all commercial journeys. Subsided journeys remain unchanged
575 (Diamond): Withdraw all commercial journeys. Arriva journeys and subsided journeys remain unchanged
582 (Diamond): Monday-Saturday daytime journeys reduced to every 15 minutes. Sunday daytime journeys reduced to every 30 minutes

https://democracy.greatermanchester-ca.g...rt%20A.pdf
https://democracy.greatermanchester-ca.g...5004&Ver=4