Greater Manchester bus franchising

TheGrandWazoo · 16 Nov 2019

Stan Drews said:
Ah, the joys of Wiki. Climate-data.org suggests rather different figures of 800 and 929mm respectively, which would seem to be closer to the facts.

Alternatively, if you use the Met Office data, Bournemouth (Hurn) is indeed 835mm whilst Manchester (Rochdale - the nearest weather station) is 1118mm.

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cnjb8 · 16 Nov 2019

I think they wont go yellow, as it is the tram livery. Maybe purple?

radamfi · 16 Nov 2019

cnjb8 said:
I think they wont go yellow, as it is the tram livery.

That's precisely why yellow might be chosen. Most cities paint buses the same colour as trams. Obviously a lot of the time it is the same municipal operator running buses and trams. Bizarrely London repainted its trams from red to green even though they use the same fare structure.

Mikey C · 16 Nov 2019

radamfi said:
That's precisely why yellow might be chosen. Most cities paint buses the same colour as trams. Obviously a lot of the time it is the same municipal operator running buses and trams. Bizarrely London repainted its trams from red to green even though they use the same fare structure.

But then London (or rather TfL and LRT etc) has chosen to give each form of transport different colours. The DLR has always had a unique colour scheme, and when they decided to paint tube trains again, they didn't go back to red.

Bletchleyite · 17 Nov 2019

Mikey C said:
But then London (or rather TfL and LRT etc) has chosen to give each form of transport different colours. The DLR has always had a unique colour scheme, and when they decided to paint tube trains again, they didn't go back to red.

And Merseyside doesn't. Nor do the German operations.

TheGrandWazoo · 17 Nov 2019

Bletchleyite said:
And Merseyside doesn't. Nor do the German operations.

There is no golden rule. Even in the same country.... Barcelona does paint its funiculars and metro in the same scheme as the buses; Valencia doesn't. In Lisbon, it's the famous yellow Carris colours on everything but in Porto, no commonality (and that's before you factor in any bus from over the river). As for Italy.... anything seems to go judging by Florence!!

Llandudno · 18 Nov 2019

Robertj21a said:
Bournemouth had a largely yellow livery that looked smart. Mind you, their weather is often a bit better than Manchester......

The rain helps keep them clean!

njlawley · 19 Nov 2019

radamfi said:
Wikipedia says Bournemouth has an average of 835.2 mm of rain per year compared to 828.8 mm in Manchester, although Bournemouth has about 20% more sunshine hours.

That's normally because Bournemouth gets more summertime thundery deluges!

As for the fleet, it is still all-over yellow, just with applicable route branding applied to most of the fleet.

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