Greater Manchester Service Changes

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RE: Greater Manchester Service Changes
Some details of forthcoming changes to services, which are currently scheduled for 31 January (could possibly be delayed due to lockdown) and 11 April 2021 from the next GMCA Bus Committee meeting

From 31 January 2021

• 6 (First): The Sunday daytime service is restored to a half-hourly basis (currently reduced to hourly due to Covid)
• 29 (Diamond): Some journeys are extended from Boothstown to Booths Hall Estate, partly replacing service VH1.
• 36/37 (Diamond): Monday-Saturday daytime services restored to every 10 minutes each (currently reduced to every 12 minutes due to Covid).
• 58 (First): The service, which was temporarily suspended due to Covid, will be permanently withdrawn. Service 408 is extended from Shaw to Rochdale. Shaw-Oldham covered by service 57.
• 74 Salford (Diamond): The 0618 journey from Salford Shopping Centre will be re-routed via Agecroft Enterprise Park
• 182 (First): Service curtailed to run between Shaw and Manchester only, with the Rochdale-Shaw section covered by service 408.
• 217 (Diamond): Re-routed away from Roundwood Road and will run along Princess Parkway instead
  300 (Diamond): Saturday only service re-timed to run 15 minutes later and re-numbered to X22.
• 408 (First): Service proposed to be extended from Shaw to Rochdale via Buckstones (in both directions), Newhey and Milnrow
• 583 (Diamond): The early evening journeys operated by Diamond are withdrawn
• 607/608 (Diamond): Service re-routed via Sougher Road instead of Dryden Avenue. Journeys via Nicol Road are re-numbered 608.
• 635 (Diamond): Monday-Saturday daytime service extended to Wigan Royal Albert Edward Infirmary
• Fast Trax (Rosso): The Fast Trax service, which was temporarily suspended due to Covid, will be permanently withdrawn. Services 467/468 continue to provide frequent service between Bury and Rochdale
• VH1 (Diamond): Withdrawn due to end of developer funding. Partly replaced by service 29
  

From 11 April 2021

• 41 (Go North West/Stagecoach): The evening service, which is currently ran in two sections (Middleton-Manchester and Manchester-Sale) is proposed to be re-timed and merged into one through route.
• 44 (TBC): New service introduced, replacing the 217 route between Manchester and Wythenshawe Hospital.
• 80 (Stagecoach): Proposed to be withdrawn and partly replaced by service 184
• 94 (TBC): Route proposed to be extended to Bury, replacing service 492, restoring a previous link between NMGH, Prestwich, Pilsworth and Bury lost in 2015.
• 103 (Stagecoach): Service proposed to be curtailed to terminate at Manchester Airport Interchange instead of Cargo Centre, which is served by service 313.
• 151 (TBC): Proposed to be extended from Failsworth to Ashton-under-Lyne via existing 397 route via Hollinwood, Hollins and Hathershaw. Propps Hall Drive between Clive Road and Marlborough Road would no longer be served.
• 184 (TBC): Evening service between Grotton, Lees, Greenacres and Oldham proposed to be introduced to replace the existing service 80.
• 217 (TBC): Proposed to be curtailed to run between Ashton and Manchester only, with the Manchester-Wythenshawe Hospital section covered by new service 44.
• 248 (Go Goodwins): Proposed to be withdrawn
• 335 (TBC): New two-hourly evening and Sunday service proposed to be introduced between Ashton and Denton, partly replacing service 41A.
• 336/337 (TBC): The Monday-Saturday daytime service will become wholly supported and a revised timetable is proposed
• 345 (TBC): Evening and Sunday service proposed to be reduced to every two hours.
• 389 (TBC): The Monday-Saturday daytime service will become wholly supported and a revised timetable is proposed
• 397 (Go Goodwins): The service, introduced in November 2020, is proposed to be merged with service 151 and operate between Ashton-under-Lyne and NMGH via Hathershaw, Hollinwood, Failsworth, Newton Heath and Harpurhey
• 492 (Tyrers): The service, introduced in October 2020, is proposed to be merged with service 94 and operate between Bury and NMGH via Pilsworth, Prestwich and Cheetham Hill
• 510 (Arriva/Transdev) and 511 (Diamond): Evening and Sunday journeys on service 510 proposed to be replaced by journeys on service 511 instead. Operator TBC.
• 521 (TBC): Proposed to be re-routed to serve Logistics North with evening and Sunday journeys introduced between Farnworth and Westhoughton via Logistics North.
• 536 (Vision Bus): Proposed to be withdrawn and replaced by service 511
  

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