Manchester bus franchising

[Mayneway]

RE: Manchester bus franchising

(25/02/2023 14:55)KXW212 Wrote:  Whatever the outcome, the traffic issues will be there and the bus priorities won't be. A yellow bus can't jump traffic, just as a blue or stripey one can't. You only have to look at the various operators social media to see the delays caused by it, day in, day out. It's not just that city centre either, take a spin on the 22 and see how long it takes from end to end, compared to what is scheduled. Much the same on the Rochdale Road corridor during the peak, or the frequent standstills through Rusholme or Gorton. Soundbites and ideology don't mean reliability.

Someone who speaks sense.
TFGM and Manchester City council have just set up bus gates on part of deansgate and new Bailey street, yet to get to the bus gate on deansgate you have to sit in bumper to bumper traffic at Victoria bridge and the bottom of deansgate where Harvey Nichols is. So great in theory but makes zero difference.

Let’s put a bus lane along broad street past Salford Uni, only you have to sit in traffic to get to the bus lane, and of course it’s constantly closed completely for roadworks - like at the moment.

The money spent on this crazy scheme could have been better spent improving the infrastructure but of course that will never happen.