Howards/Springfield

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RE: Howards/Springfield

(04/03/2018 09:10)dca529x Wrote:  All that matters to any prospective passenger, is that it turns up, which it did, not what colour it was.

I'm not arguing about the colour. I'm saying a combination of the bus having logos for another company with no obvious on hire notices, showing 'Knutsford 200' on the destination display while running a 289 Altrincham-Knutsford-Northwich service is the issue. I'm familiar with local buses and I thought at first glance it must be a vehicle heading to a school for an afternoon school run. With it being an old, not well presented bus made it look more like vehicle which would be used on a school service than a normal service.

Quote:I'm not sure that a comparison between relatively main road routes and the 289 is entirely fair, which is rural in many parts.
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Having travelled on a D&G 130 during the worse of it (after the other lot's 130 failed to show up) it was noticeable how the road conditions changed drastically once you were past Henbury. The weather seemed fairly localised and the road conditions around the 'Costa Del Macc' were very different to that 5 miles down the road.

As you say the 130 services (both D&G and Arriva) continued to operate, which is why it seemed surprising that Howards suspended the 27 the other day. If it's the roads in the Over Peover area were the issue then they could have omitted them and on most services no-one would have been affected.

I'm not sure why you are making an issue of road conditions on the 289 route, as far as I'm aware there were no issues and the services were able to operate all week. Macclesfield and Chester are the places in Cheshire most likely to suffer disruption during wintry weather, so what conditions were like in Macclesfield bare no relevance to whether non-Macclesfield services should have been operating or not.