On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 23:31:11 +0100, Cheeky wrote:

I beg to differ - it's clearly not capable of dealing with the
millions of 42/43 variants that use it which can result in sever
congestion at times (both in the bus station and on Moseley Street).

I perhaps deliberately ignored the (1)4x silliness, because you'd need
an entire bus station on its own to cater for those. The solution to
that is route tendering and simplification (e.g. send some through
services down the 50 route instead, and interchange at Parrs Wood) to
get the number of permutations down. I don't see why GMPTE should
fund a huge bus station to cater for the Oxford Road silliness, nor
why a large swathe of Manchester City Centre should be decimated to
cater for it.

Some of the pollution problem in Manchester would also be helped if
the emissions regulations were tightened on the (1)4x!

There are also too many conflicting movements between buses and
passengers/pedestrians. I'd also question the logic of open bus
stations in a place known as "the rainy city"!!

True.

Neil

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