Manchester Community Transport

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RE: Manchester Community Transport

(20/02/2020 14:30)Mayneway Wrote:  It’s a hard route to operate. CEC wanted very young aged vehicles with a certain seating capacity which is fine, but they then expect you to keep 3 of the same type and age vehicles as spares.
I don’t know what the terrain of the route is like because I’ve never done it but constant issues with ABS faults - which doesn’t happen when they are on Ashton/Oldham routes suggests it’s not the best.

Is that '3 spare' a rumour or a fact? They awarded the 289/188 contract to Howard's when they only had the Metrocity which met the requirement and permitted D&G to use 33 seater Streetlites on services where the tender specified 35 seats, to allow the Evos to be used on other routes, rather than being backup buses for Solo routes. Hardly sound like the same council who would specify an operator must have 5 buses to run a route which needs 2.