course they do...but try reserving a seat on the 156 of a morning...see how far ya get.Cash paying on the bus can easily be resolved with a one off special single fare and encouragement of card payments.
You can use cards in other cities I’ve been to and tap in / out is the done thing on the tram. I don’t use them enough to know but surely Manchester buses take card payments?
Plenty of trains from Stockport to Manchester. Apart from Wednesday night that is!Are there not regular enough trains and buses from Stockport to Manchester? The 192 certainly is ever present.
They do but it's not tap in tap out (yet), cash is actually quicker if you've got the 2 quid ready. When paying by card you have to ask the driver what ticket you want, then they have to program the machine, then you have to lay your card or phone on the scanner, then you have to wait until the 3 green lights and red light come on, then you have to wait for the receipt to print out. For a £5 day ticket (in the Bee Bus Network) I buy it on the first bus this way but after that it's just waving the QR code under the reader, really fast. I could buy the pass beforehand via the app but I keep forgetting to do it.Cash paying on the bus can easily be resolved with a one off special single fare and encouragement of card payments.
You can use cards in other cities I’ve been to and tap in / out is the done thing on the tram. I don’t use them enough to know but surely Manchester buses take card payments?
A special fare for a City to Town bus should be in place so everyone pays the same. Maybe some sort of subsidy or sponsorship in place to keep it a regular amount. If buses are well organised then it will keep tram and car use at City lower.
Grand. As I said, I rarely use them. I stop in town when I’m out with friends and I use the tram if I go to City.Everyone pays the same for every bus journey in Manchester as it is. It’s £2.
Staying in Altrincham for the Everton game tomorrow.That's the new scheduled route in the evening after 8 pm. Altrincham to Piccadilly now extended to Etihad. In between Ashton to Eccles.
Staying in Altrincham for the Everton game tomorrow.
Is there a direct service to the game from there.
Thanks.Not at tomorrow's match start and finish times. Change at Cornbrook into the every 6 minutes frequency service to Etihad Campus. / Ashton.
Not at tomorrow's match start and finish times. Change at Cornbrook into the every 6 minutes frequency service to Etihad Campus. / Ashton.
Metrolink are completely shit where MCFC are concerned.Seems the last couple of games a much improved service after the games not a lot of stacking of fans past the ticket barriers ,living in Devon means getting to Picc ASP so Ive got a fastrack ticket and its been strait down to the platform.
We have all done our share of moaning quite rightly but credit when its due would seem to be in order.
Think you made a fatal mistake getting off at Piccadilly as all the Altrincham trams run from the Etihad after 6.30pm now on a Saturday (8pm weekdays, all-day Sunday). Always go as far as you can, Cornbrook in your case, before changing over as many on that packed tram will get off at the Gardens to swap to Bury/Rochdale services or Cornbrook for Didsbury/Eccles.Metrolink are completely shit where MCFC are concerned.
Left my seat in Block 211 with 1 minute of injury time to go and sailed through the sheep pens at the Etihad Metrolink stop straight on to an Eccles tram. Alighted at Piccadilly and the board said there was a tram to Altrincham in 13 minutes, the time got down to 4 minutes then froze. Ten minutes later it arrived crammed full as it had come from the Stadium.
Prior to it arriving 2 empty doubles had come in both going to Bury, why couldn't they have sent one of them to Altrincham?
I am convinced that the people organising the tram scheduling are all Rag fans, or worse still Dippers.
Think you made a fatal mistake getting off at Piccadilly as all the Altrincham trams run from the Etihad after 6.30pm now on a Saturday (8pm weekdays, all-day Sunday). Always go as far as you can, Cornbrook in your case, before changing over as many on that packed tram will get off at the Gardens to swap to Bury/Rochdale services or Cornbrook for Didsbury/Eccles.
Point I was making that no need to do the Clayton Hall diversion now ( done it myself before getting a fastback card) if the present after match service stays then shows maybe just maybe someone's listening.Tried going in the Ashton direction after noticing the queue going to town direction was massive.
Altrincham my final destination.
Still a shambles.
Waited fuck knows how long for a tram to Clayton Hall.
Off there eventually and got on an Tram to Cornbrook.
Got as far as the Etihad,everybody off broken window.
Luckily an Altrincham tram was next but fuck me that was a shocking service on the night.