(21 Jul 2017, 8:07 pm)James101 wrote All seems quite fun & quirky but I don't see the commercial benefit? I used to live in Levenshulme and know most people on the top deck of a 192 are not sober enough to realise the roof has suddenly gone missing.
It does seem a strange set of services. 250/X50 I can understand as it will carry many, and be seen by even more at the Trafford Centre. 192 is a "pet" route, but as you will probably know, outside Student peaks, loadings can be very low, especially north of Stockport. I've made numerous journeys from Stockport to Manchester in the middle of the day, and loadings rarely reach double figures. Although its also a Stockport-Manchester service, the 203 is definately NOT a pet route; it is subject to all sorts of delays, and if it ends up taking a gap much above the registered 10 minute service between Reddish and Stockport, it could easily end up with a standing load even off-peak. Much as I would like to catch it home from work on said 203 route (lol), I would have thought that running it on the 38 (the pointless, low loading service that epitomises the company's fall from grace in Manchester), would have been far more logical if it is a PR stunt.