Local bus usage figures for 15/16 published

[Mayneway]

RE: Local bus usage figures for 15/16 published
Hardly surprising for Manchester. I've been a bus user for many many years and the decline in standards over the last 3-4 years sums it up. I feel very very sorry for anyone who has to rely on bus services in Manchester.
Yes the big operators have a lot to answer for. Stagecoach inparticular have rapidly gone down hill. New buses are all good and well but standards are well below what they once were.
Tfgm have a lot to answer for. They have decimated the evening subsidised network and made it impossible to get about after 6pm on buses. They live in this bubble where they assume everyone still works Monday to Friday 9-5, and that everyone is tucked up at home by 7pm so it dosen't matter what time they run a bus round.
They award tenders at rock bottom prices to incompetent operators. They effectively have pushed people like me off public transport into cars.

Sorry but the figures sum things up. Let's hope the new mayor can shake things up.