First Manchester

[M60lad]

RE: First Manchester
Just to clear some up some confusion, just because a service is tendered doesn't necessarily mean that the vehicle/s used have to be low-floor as there are various different tenders issued in Greater Manchester area, for example the 188 Ryder Brow-Manchester Piccadilly is a tendered service and this always has a Plaxton Vario on it daily even though the operator that operates it has plenty of Plaxton SLF Darts in the fleet.

Also there's the ruling that vehicles over a certain age can't be used on tenders and this might be the case with 31 and with 31 only being a short term emergency tender then the Olympians in question are allowed to be used.

To be honest I don't think TfGM would have awarded the emergency tender to First if they weren't happy with what they are going to use on the service