Services which don't exist but there could be demand for

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RE: Services which don't exist but there could be demand for

(16/09/2015 20:43)Dentonian Wrote:  I've already mentioned 400/1, which was ruined by the M60, which not only made car journeys much faster on paper, but produced congestion around junctions and when the slightest bump occured on the Motorway. Heap Bridge and the whole of Denton being the most regular problems.

Expresses were withdrawn because congestion made them totally pointless. Buses would crawl past passengers waiting at stops that they weren't registered to stop at.

Cross city services are a different matter altogether. Manchester City Council banned them in 1995, exploiting a tragic accident as their excuse. The facility has recently been partly restored, but the beneficiaries are completely different as a photo in October's Buses mag illustrates

Can you go into any more detail regarding the 1995 accident. I know you've mentioned it once already (possibly on another site). I started following the bus scene in Manchester from the mid 90's while at school but for the life of me cannot think of it (probably me getting older)

Incidentally was the 400/1 commercial till it's demise or was it ever subsidised?