Stagecoach Manchester

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RE: Stagecoach Manchester

(11/10/2014 09:09)Dentonian Wrote:  I think the 142/143 is nominally every 5 minutes each for most of the day. The newest "141" bus is a 52 reg - or will be when it gets off the pits at Daw Bank - so early 2003 at the latest.

The longer the £1 flat fare continues with the level of operational cost put in by both operators. We know in theory that cross-subsidisation is illegal (I think "evil" was the word Ridley/Thatcher used), but I can't help feeling that it will lead to higher fares on "standard" routes, where the vast majority of journeys are at least £2.30.

I'm no expert on pollution, but the improvements in emissions from bus engines/exhausts have gone very much under the radar in recent decades, so I would be surprised if an '07 registration Enviro400 isn't quite a lot "greener" than a 1999 Trident.

However, I think "B10M's" definition of "style" is different to mine - although at least he/she didn't use the word "comfort". There is nothing comfortable about modern buses, with their hard plastic seats thinly disguised by a millimetre of moquette or "e-leather".

I'm not doing well registration wise. The 2004 Tridents returned to London

In theory were already paying the 'battle' as just after the £1 fares started both First and Stagecoach put up weekly tickets, with stagecoach putting up single fares as well.

Having spent the last 3 years traveling to and from work on the god arful 56/07 Enviro400's when at AZ I think the students crying out for comfort will be in for a shock.
And interestingly one of the 56 reg Enviro400's was on the 169 on Thursday and and given the amount of thick black smoke being churned out of the exhaust as if ran up Oldham Road, it certainly didn't look very 'enviromentally friendly'.