Manchester 24 hour Public Transport

[Barney]

RE: Manchester 24 hour Public Transport
I visit Manchester frequently and am extremely impressed by how vibrant the city's nightlife is but find it astonishing that most services finish around midnight.

The most cost-effective (cheapest) form of night transport is the use of buses and my understanding is that Andy Burnham is keen to reintroduce these service in some form at least at weekends and contrary to popular misconception not everyone who would use these night buses would be drunken louts.

I suspect that if these services charged standard fares and allowed the use of prepaid tickets - as happens in London - the increased passenger loadings would probably cover running costs.