First Manchester

[djb]

RE: First Manchester

(31/01/2019 22:36)Raawwwrrr! Wrote:  Barely any students will use the 41 southbound. The percentage that do between west didsbury and Sale is very small. Most students have stagecoach uniriders as the first services are less frequent and start and end earlier than their rival.

Actually a lot of students use the 41 between west didsbury and sale. The problem is that virtually no students (or other fare paying passengers) use it between Manchester and northenden on the shared portion with stagecoach.

If passengers numbers on the northenden to sale section were reflected in the wider route it would be a money spinner. For example on my contraflow Peak journey tonight, my single decker was almost at a standing load of fare paying passengers at northenden (airport hotel). The next passenger got on at fallowfield, despite stops being loaded.