First Manchester

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RE: First Manchester

(30/04/2016 20:31)Metroline1511 Wrote:  I was annoyed with First on Tuesday April 19th. I was on Parsonage Road just after 8.15 last Tuesday morning. I reached a bus stop and had a quick look at the timetable to gauge whether a 22 might be due. I saw one had been due at 8.13 and just as I looked up one came but was going fairly quickly. The bus was barely 5 minutes late if that. I put my hand out but he did not stop for me! Surely, when someone is at a bus stop and checking a timetable, there is more than a slim chance that they might be planning to catch the next bus from there?

The driver would argue that you didn't signal in time and that even attempting to stop would have been dangerous.
To be honest First seem to be a lot worse at sailing past people at bus stops than stagecoach. I know my colleague at work used to reliy on First pioneer to get her home after a late shift at work and she was forever having to ring taxis because the driver had simply driven past her and others at the stop.
When my partner lived in Newton Heath we would often go for 184's into town and very often they would just drive past in the outside lane, yet in all the years I've used stagecoach I don't think I've ever swan a driver leave people at stops - even when they have signalled very late.