First Manchester

[Nicholas]

RE: First Manchester

(04/01/2017 20:26)Alexw12 Wrote:  I don't think V3 will work as well as V1/2. I think there will be a peak time express vantage service soon though

Eh? How do you run an express service on an already limited stop route? Not unless you start putting on boarding and alighting restrictions.

The principal reason for the V3 is to link the western side of Greater Manchester to the hospitals, in particular the Children's Hospital which was served by the likes of the 26 and 35 to 39 when it was sited at Pendlebury. It was a requirement of the award of the busway QBC, hence why all this money has been spent on doing up the Oxford Road corridor... although it was originally anticipated that the whole service would run cross-city, rather than the set-up that we have here.