First Manchester

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RE: First Manchester

(01/02/2019 07:27)djb Wrote:  Back in the early 2000s it wasn’t even limited to students holding more than 1 weekly. I lived in withington for a while whilst working in Manchester and I usually had a finglands or UKN weekly (£2), but would time my commute to the bullocks 42 and pay on that if it was first to avoid the bus standoff in Owens park.

I think there’s a little bit less of that behaviour now due to stagecoach having such a large share of the market now, but I expect that first still gets some good paying loads st times of saturation on stagecoach.

I also can’t recall when stagecoach returned to night bus operation on wilmslow road in earnest, as that was another feature of multiple pass holding prior. (I think it was around the time UKN started moving into daytime ops - 1999/2000)

I'd forgotten that UK North was mostly night time ops initally. Would be good to see a detailed timeline on the wilmslow Road operations