Stagecoach Manchester

[ace]

RE: Stagecoach Manchester

(09/05/2013 18:36)P528LND Wrote:  An issue I find with cross city or cross town services is that if they are late on a certain part of the route, they are late throughout the journey, however even though that may be the case there are still passengers who do change in cities and towns and miss their connecting bus because the previous service was late. You can't get it just right thinking about it :')

Well surely it's the case with any route that once it falls late by getting held up in traffic, or other reason it sends the whole schedule for the bus/driver to pot.
At least if a bus is late going cross town, but the passenger doesn't have to change buses, they will only be as late as the bus they are on and not that plus the time they now have to wait for the next connection bus having missed the one they should have got. Also if a bus is behind schedule it's quite common for a driver to speed things up a little to make up time, i.e. less newspaper reading time at terminus, etc