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To paraphrase Henry Ford "You can go anywhere by coach from Manchester.... provided it begins with L. And isn't Leicester or Lincoln or Llandudno.

I accept that someone else later clarified your comments about city centres, but what is "plainly incorrect" about my other comments. OK. I can't remember which study it was (there are so many), but i'm sure it was actually commissioned by the DoE or the green lobby, which identified the 10...

Has this new boss changed your style? He's a mate of Pep's so if the other Championship clubs struggle with his way of playing, I can see Leeds being the bookies favourites by the Autumn.

Notice the pattern; First it was Easy access buses; get Government to pay for a few trials (especially in London) then get the Adult fare payer to do the rest. Once that's done, its realised they aren't as effective as they should be because of bus stop blocking and other obstacles reaching the...

But city centres already have the highest proportion of Euro6 & hybrids and don't forget the engines automatically cut out to avoid idling. Diesel cars may get a bad rap from some quarters but not the BBC! They've even changed out of date footage of Hybrids passing their former HQ on Oxford...

I was thinking more about local media especially the BBC. BBC NW on June 14th twisted already inaccurate IPPR North statistics and virtually said that Buses and HGVs were the sole cause of traffic pollution in Manchester. Private cars, taxis and vans (not to mention 33 year old diesel trains)...

As a matter of (now, historic) interest, what was the thinking behind First buying Finglands from EYMS give their general financial standing? And at the risk of drifting off-topic, who else bid? Obviously, Stagecoach couldn't buy it, but from comments made locally at the time, Arriva must have bid.

More dispersion of public services, I suppose. Nevertheless, the principle still stands and I suspect that TFGM paying is/was an anomoly that somebody has now picked up on as budgets get squeezed tighter. Unless, of course, pupils living in Gtr. Manchester also use it. Either way, I would think...

Bullet points 2 and 4 are self contradictory Also, independant studies have shown that (in Gtr. Manchester) at least, the greatest pollution problems are *not* in the city centre. They are at/close to the most congested stretches of the M60 & M62 or on major corridors with relatively low numbers...

Hmm. Perhaps not the best analogy. Our bins are emptied at unreliable times with the Council no longer publishing a calender of which bins are emptied which week and are left dumped in dangerous places often some distance from our house. Actually, if some people's idea of exploiting Franchising...

TFGM are financed by and responsible to the taxpayers of Gtr Manchester so should never have been subsidising children of WY taxpayers. Also is it usual for children to attend state schools in neighbouring counties ? Or is this a result of widespread school closures?

Except as he knows full well even the new Bus services Act specifically outlaws local authorities eg TFGM owning and running buses. Also, the CMA would never allow Stagecoach buying FSY.

1 & 3 are linked. The perception of "polluting" buses comes largely from the class ridden media - yet more footage of Hybrid Enviro400s on BBC Breakfast this morning, when discussing pollution links to heart enlargement. NoX & PM10 emissions per bus have reduced THIRTY fold since the 1960s...

[QUOTE="TheGrandWazoo, post: 3575860, member: 19354") that there are probably corridors where growth may well be achievable (e.g. Bolton to Bury, for instance). Some are not simply because Metrolink is now the primary public transport link (e.g. Denton to Manchester) and some will just have...

£5 billion. Hardly, HS2 budget is it? - even allowing for inflation.

If it can justify the employment of "clippies" it should be the most "revenue gaining" route in the whole of the UK!

This is what I was hinting at - and I presume your (reasonable) presumption applies to all bus drivers in Great Britain and Northern Ireland.......

So an essential public service is simply a public service with staff belonging to a powerful Union. In that case, which are the "powerful" Unions and which ones aren't, so that I can work it out from that?

This harks back to a general Tory policy suggesting the outlawing of all strikes affecting "essential public services". The big and extremely simplee question is; what constitutes an "essential public service"?

Whilst , I take your point about car access, as in "I can't afford NOT to drive", the average trip length for (stopping) bus being less than 5km is probably a bit misleading. Apart from journeys below 5km (or more specifically 4km/2.5 miles) offering the worst value, there are many, many...