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| | | Subject: Buses in South Manchester
Posted May 13, 2000 by DickieP
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 | | One of the great things abut Manchester is the bus service along Wilmslow Road. At times it seems like there is a bus every 30 seconds. The service is also 24 hour. It's one of the few times that I've seen a number of bus companies working a single route which benefits nobody but the consumer.
On a similar theme, I once asked a friend at work why Magic Buses were so named. He thought for a moment and pronounced that the buses really are magic because when you get on them you are in one place but when you get off you are somewhere completely different.
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| | | Subject: Buses in South Manchester
Posted May 16, 2000 by J'au-æmne Princess of Darkness
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 | | the buses are great. and cheap (except stagecoach)
But watch out, although buses are scarily frequent, there are times in the morning and evening where there're incredibly crowded during termtime. Probably dangerously so
Magic Buses are stagecoaches alter ego, don't get them if you're elderly/infirm, they're old old buses.... I'm speaking from personal experience here of my Grandmother.
Amother thing not to expect is anyone to know definitively what the fare is. It depends on how you look, the colour of the bus driver*, the time of day, the phase of the moon.... if you're in East Didsbury going into the town centre its cheaper and quicker to go by train.
*I actually do pay less along the same route with a coloured bus driver. weird but true.
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| | | Subject: Buses in South Manchester
Posted Aug 18, 2000 by Al 'Big Worm' G
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| | I agree with you about those prices! They do change.
I have at times got a bus from St Mary's to Withington and
have paid an amount that I have remembered. The next evening
I quote the same amount and get "Where are you going??" You explain
and they try to make out that you are trying to cheat them out of 10p
Also if you plan to catch any bus early in the morning you may as well take up Bus spotting as you are going to see many a bus drive buy with people crammed in like sardines. If you manage to get on one, wear protective clothing and locate one of those stop bells cause your going to have to whack that thing a good 30 minutes before you plan to get off!
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| | | Subject: Buses in South Manchester
Posted Aug 18, 2000 by J'au-æmne Princess of Darkness
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| | I remember back in the bad old days when I had to get the bus from Owens Park to Rusholme...
and back again in the evening...
I tended to charge myself 40p on most busses, 50p on stagecoach.
So, I get on the bus, d'you know the stop in Rusholme pretty well opposite the garage? And I say 50p please.
The driver looks at me blankly: Where are you going?
J: Owens park
Driver: *looks at fare sheet* 45p!
J:*surprised, pays* (to non initiates - stagecoach voluntarily charging less than 50p is just, well, !!!!!)
Next day, I get on a bus to go home, from the next stop in the direction of travel. So, naturally enough, I think, oh well, it should be 45 from here too, its less far...
j: 45 please.
D: where you going?
j: owens park
D: 55 please
J: but...
D: Theres a fare stage! *Don't* tell me you know the route better than me, thats Dickenson Road, there are no 45 fares from here... *continues rant*
J: *leaves bus*
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| | | Subject: Buses in South Manchester
Posted Aug 31, 2007 by AgProv
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| | 2007: Clipper Cards are no more. Wilmslow Road remains as crowded as ever, but some bright spark has redesigned Rusholme so that there's only one lane of traffic in each direction. Add this to people in Rusholme ignoring yellow lines and "no parking" signs and putting their cars just wherever they please, AND the Friday-night post-mosque spectacle of cars full of Asian youths showing off to posses of Asian girls strolling seemingly aimlessly up and down the pavements, who are pretending to ignore them (some sort of mating ritual?) and you get gridlock... if the traffic wardens and cops ever chose to blitz Rusholme, they'd have a bonanza day as regards offences, endorsements and fines...
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