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04.04.2024 - 17:37 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
Commuters were left stranded across Oldham this week after delays and cancellations blighted the borough’s brand new bus system. The town’s buses were taken over by the Bee Network on March 24, but the publicly controlled system has run into “teething troubles”. Now, Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham apologised to inconvenienced passengers.
The mayor said “driver availability” issues were the reason for the disruption and promised the service “will settle” in the coming days. Passengers had felt the sharp end of the problems, with Paul, a regular bus user from Oldham, saying ‘it’s been hit or miss all this week’.
“We just want the buses to run and to run on time,” he added. Wendy, another passenger, claimed she’d seen a number of buses driving on the wrong roads.
She said: “The bus drivers don’t seem to know the routes yet. Last week I saw passengers having to guide the bus driver where to go.
“It’s not their fault and it is quite intricate here in Oldham, but you’d expect them to learn before they started.”
Other passengers took to the Bee Network’s X account to voice their complaints, with one claiming “It has been the worst week of commuting in 34 years working in Manchester”. Complaints included reports of mismatches between the live boards and bus arrivals, last minute cancellations and bus drivers going “AWOL” - leaving a bus-load of passengers checking their watches.
Apologising for the problems, the mayor said: "This was the biggest change to buses since the mid-80s. It's gone very smoothly at Queens Road, Middleton, Rochdale, and Eccles — which is an existing [Bee Network] depot but serves the tranche 2 area.
"There has been disruption in Oldham and I am sorry to anyone who has experienced that. There's
The creation of a major new high speed rail station in Liverpool, strengthening the city's links with Manchester, has taken a significant step closer.
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