North West Bus Service Changes due to Coronavirus outbreak

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RE: North West Bus Service Changes due to Coronavirus outbreak

(03/06/2020 08:35)knutstransport Wrote:  As the 88 and 89 are part of the same contract I wonder whether the council have said to suspend the 89 in favour of keeping Macclesfield-Knutsford-Wilmslow-Altrincham services running, without them needing to provide additional subsidy.

Given the mention of a bus running empty from Wilmslow to Northwich and then back to Wincham, I find it strange D&G aren't even running a token 89 service that fits around everything else they are running.

The 89 is pretty dead so while it is part of the same contract, Macc takes priority as it is more useful to CEC residents. I think that if the timings worked out, they would just scrap the 89 but right now, you would have buses sat in Knutsford for 1h 30 so it's a case of, 'we might as well run the 89 because it saves a bus being sat around doing nothing'.