tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7432323264902617108.post8915437202935178501..comments2024-03-29T08:14:43.839+00:00Comments on Public Transport Experience: Lost Line Leads to Leigh - but Late!fatbusblokehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06833340546527596517noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7432323264902617108.post-86989864372910151012015-01-30T17:07:41.416+00:002015-01-30T17:07:41.416+00:00 Mike who’s 24; He’d like to be buried in a large ... Mike who’s 24; He’d like to be buried in a large satin-lined coffin, with a couple of Page Three stunners. They’re alive....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7432323264902617108.post-76497409869701430172015-01-30T14:00:10.902+00:002015-01-30T14:00:10.902+00:00The X34 is timetabled to take up to 81 minutes inb...The X34 is timetabled to take up to 81 minutes inboundto Manchester City Centre in the morning peak, so the busway project should achieve a significant time saving. And that is really the point - the busway (and the on-highway bus priority) will allow more regularity in journey times. <br /><br />Equally, the busway services will continue cross-city to the Universities and MRI, so any passengers who make that journey will achieve significant time savings through not having to change bus.<br /><br />The Stagecoach 32 parallels the busway between Tyledesley and Ellenbrook. Between Ellenbrook and Manchester the bus priority is on-highway, so, the 32 would benefit from this by by-passing the congestion on the East Lancashire Road. Whilst it fulfils a useful point-to-point function, the 32 can never compete with the train for journeys between Wigan, Hindley & Atherton and Manchester. Stagecoach has, this week, just reduced the off-peak frequency of the 32 to hourly. It remains to be seen the impact of the busway on the through service. Perhaps curtailment at Atherton and end-on connections with the busway service and a through ticketing arrangement?<br />Prescotiannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7432323264902617108.post-67409781148550836332015-01-30T13:35:32.658+00:002015-01-30T13:35:32.658+00:00So what happens to the Stagecoach 32 from Wigan. W...So what happens to the Stagecoach 32 from Wigan. Will the punters from Hindley, Atherton etc. be denied a faster ride because it's not a First bus?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7432323264902617108.post-19436662545502705712015-01-30T09:52:28.552+00:002015-01-30T09:52:28.552+00:00Thank you Dwarfer1979. Indeed, there are expectati...Thank you Dwarfer1979. Indeed, there are expectations and expectations.<br />You refer to the "new" Arriva service. Pedantically this is not new, being half the existing service to Milton Keynes being diverted to use the busway. And if the Luton operators were uneasy about using a facility which took buses away from local stops, their aspirations might have been significantly <b>understated</b> to prepare their stakeholders for bad news! I predict the same dichotomy of statistic for the Leigh busway!fatbusblokehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06833340546527596517noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7432323264902617108.post-84486921755260715952015-01-30T09:02:11.078+00:002015-01-30T09:02:11.078+00:00Not sure about your comment on the Luton Busway, i...Not sure about your comment on the Luton Busway, if you talk to the operators (as opposed to politicians who are trying to cover the backs or score political points) the passenger growth generated by the Busway has exceeded their expectations greatly. Arriva have already added a service to the Busway and are proposing adding another after Easter and there may well be more to come soon. The problem is that scheme promoters like to inflate their figures by making unsubstantiated assumptions (and this applies to all major transport infrastructure schemes including rail & trams as well as buses) which will often make these projects then look like failures when they fail to achieve this. In the case of Luton I think the passenger figures being quoted when broken down by the services actually being provided would have amounted to full buses on almost every journey which was never realistic.dwarfer1979noreply@blogger.com