{"id":2562,"date":"2023-05-04T11:46:09","date_gmt":"2023-05-04T11:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/saturday-variety\/"},"modified":"2023-05-04T11:46:09","modified_gmt":"2023-05-04T11:46:09","slug":"saturday-variety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/saturday-variety\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Variety"},"content":{"rendered":"
Whatever Happened In Macclesfield?<\/span><\/p>\n The contrast between D&G’s marketing effort and the non-publicity policy of Arriva goes some way towards explaining the latter’s abject failure in the town!<\/p><\/div>\n Service 3 to Weston is similarly absorbed but probably with a smidgen of tender money. The service remains half hourly.<\/p>\n It is, naturally, better presented than anything Arriva bothered to offer its few remaining passengers.<\/p>\n The horrific complexity of Arriva’s presentation of the 4, 5 and 6 is just confusing.<\/p>\n The half hourly 4 to Broken Cross is straightforward but the 5 and 6 are an attempt to cobble together an evening service to include bits of the 3 and 4.<\/p><\/div>\n The result is a much neater 19 and 19A …<\/p>\n Cleverly, this local service rides on the back of the pre-existing route to Prestbury. Neat eh?<\/p>\n This time\u00a0 it becomes a somewhat less neat and tidy 14\/14A.<\/p>\n fbb guesses that this gives a similar service to the 9<\/p>\n … but at lower cost because again the former Arriva Moss Rose service piggybacks on a modified and pre-existing Centrebus 14.<\/p>\n Clearly Centrebus and its associated companies have come up with a good plan to maintain similar levels of service throughout the town but sharing the costs with their existing routes.<\/p><\/div>\n And there are some very attractive fares …<\/p>\n <\/p><\/div>\n Weird! It runs from Manorcrafts Primary School …<\/p>\n .. .actually this roundabout near the school; then via Egham Station …<\/p>\n … and then on to nowhere in particular in Egham.<\/p><\/div>\n … an more notably, this!<\/p>\n This magnificent Victoria pile is the University of London Royal Holloway College Founders Building.<\/p>\n When we look at a timetable extract …<\/p>\n … we see that reflected in the timetable running on college days only. The student web site also shown the FH3 running at weekends …<\/p>\n …and Sreetview shows Diamond running route RH1.\u00a0<\/p>\n Traveline shows the 8B and, RH2 and RH3 both run by Diamond Bus South East.<\/p><\/div>\n