Manchester Community Transport

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RE: Manchester Community Transport

(27/02/2020 16:23)33109 Wrote:  D&G have a tendency not to like running saturday services of it's a commercial route. But I think cheshire east subsidise it.

Someone at D&G really needs to look at how on Saturdays in Cheshire the total number of passengers who travel by train is very high but they always claim there aren't enough passengers to make a bus service a commercial success.

The problem is perhaps the times bus services start and finish on a Saturday and where they go, opposed to demand for bus services not being there. For instance, would running a few evening services make more money than a daytime service to some places on Saturday?

When the RMT Northern strikes were happening on Saturdays leading up to Christmas in 2018, I pointed out to a D&G manager that there's an opportunity for you there given how many passengers Northern usually carry on Saturdays in December. He just shrugged it off saying it was not worth the hassle of all the paperwork.