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RE: Stagecoach Manchester - gilbert - 18/07/2015 17:10
(15/07/2015 18:46)SF07 Wrote: 19475 has been involved in an accident on Chester Road near Tesco. Accident happened around 5.45pm-6pm. Was reported to have been on the 256 route at the time.
From MEN:
https://twitter.com/KatieButlerMEN/status/621384362098040832/photo/1
![[Image: CJ-ZxtCWwAAK9ky.jpg]](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CJ-ZxtCWwAAK9ky.jpg)
This bus was on the X57 today,so obviously not badly damaged. Hope the person involved in the accident has recovered.
RE: Stagecoach Manchester - acocker96 - 18/07/2015 19:10
Do you think Limeside could be considered a 'captive market' for Stagecoach? Most of .us and most of our neighbours have our own cars, but most of the estate don't and with Stagecoach now once again running all Limeside routes (74, 76, 76A, 183) there's no real alternative unless you walk 15 minutes to Hollins Road for the 184.
RE: Stagecoach Manchester - acocker96 - 19/07/2015 02:12
They are generally ontime but they seem to only run late when you need to be somwhere like college and you need to get there.
RE: Stagecoach Manchester - M60lad - 19/07/2015 06:34
Not sure how it will affect Dentonian's Reddish services but 192s and 200s are diverted inbound to Manchester now due to the closure of the top end of Aytoun Street at the junction of Portland Street for roadworks, looks like services are diverting via Ducie and Dale Streets inbound for the foreseeable future
RE: Stagecoach Manchester - Mayneway - 19/07/2015 13:34
(19/07/2015 09:41)Dentonian Wrote: Thanks for the "heads up". I've just looked at the Stagecoach website, which says its yesterday and today only. Must say though, the layout of the website is poor as such disruptions are listed in (reverse) order of when Stagecoach advise the public. Surely, it should be in chronoligical order of the start of works/disruption.
It's surprising that they have this aproach to thier website when they seem to have a dedicated team dealing with thier twitter account. It's almost a 'live' update feed, however a lot of people don't use twitter so there first port of call will always be the website so you would think they would try to focus on a better service update secton on the website.
RE: Stagecoach Manchester - Mayneway - 19/07/2015 17:59
(19/07/2015 14:03)Dentonian Wrote: Indeed, I'm not part of the "TwitFace" society, which is a bit restrictive in this so called "democratic" society, as so many forums (eg. newspaper websites) will only accept contibutions by Facebook or Twitter, and not straight e-mail.
I did sign up to Facebook some years ago, but was immediately inundated by "Friend" requests from what looked like a Police mug shot album. I immediately tried to unsubscribe, but continued getting Spam "via Facebook", profile update requests etc for a year or two, before (hopefully) they stopped permanently. As for Twitter, I have no nidea how this works, but having seen a recent news item wherby they refused to co-operate with anti-terrorist agencies, I therefore regard them as terrorist sympathisers. And as the saying goes "if you're not part of the solution, then you are part of the problem.
That's another argument though just like a lot of people won't use Facebook as for a while they claimed ownership of any photos uploaded although I think that was relaxed.
But a lot of operators, as is TFGM (not a dig) seem to be biast towards twitter and Facebook users when In actual fact, a lot of people who use the Internet choose not to use them sources.
To give TFGM some credit they do have a visable twitter feed on the home page of their website so even the most anti twitterists can get that vital information. Perhaps Stagecoach could look at doing something similar on thier website.
RE: Stagecoach Manchester - Mayneway - 21/07/2015 15:26
Any idea what the letters normally printed in bold at the bottom of Stagecoach Manchester Megariders mean and are there for?
Normally it's two letters repeated so (for example) NZ NZ, however on buying my megarider this morning this week it's the word IRWELL.
Any ideas?
RE: Stagecoach Manchester - Mayneway - 21/07/2015 18:49
(21/07/2015 18:31)Dentonian Wrote: Don't know what its for, but when I asked my brother to show me a DaySaver bought a couple of weeks ago, to confirm the boarding time and fleet number of a bus he caught in pursuing a complaint for late running (the return journey failed completely!), it had MEDLOCK printed at the bottom.
How Strange.
Ill have to check last weeks megarider [In the bin at home!] but im sure it had the two letters printed instead of a word.
I'm even more curious now
RE: Stagecoach Manchester - SF07 - 21/07/2015 20:45
I imagine it must be a security thing to try and clamp down on fake tickets. I have seen some First tickets with random words printed. Same applies on the First m-ticket app too.
RE: Stagecoach Manchester - R971XVM - 23/07/2015 14:09
(21/07/2015 20:45)SF07 Wrote: I imagine it must be a security thing to try and clamp down on fake tickets.
What he said ^^
It's one thing to cut and paste little numbers but no doubt some industrious sods will try to do the same with words as well...