{"id":3820,"date":"2024-02-23T02:29:48","date_gmt":"2024-02-23T02:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/the-numbers-game\/"},"modified":"2024-02-23T02:29:48","modified_gmt":"2024-02-23T02:29:48","slug":"the-numbers-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/the-numbers-game\/","title":{"rendered":"The Numbers Game"},"content":{"rendered":"
Manchester Style<\/span><\/p>\n Sometimes the virus is released in a controlled form for a positive purpose. So about 50 years ago SELNEC (the Manchester PTE before an ongoing series of renamings) needed to do something about duplication, nay octification, of the single and double digit route numbers.\u00a0<\/p>\n The whole PTE idea was received wth varying degrees of anger, frustration and relief by the constituent municipal bus operators.<\/p>\n But the public did not like their long standing traditional route numbers being removed in favour of a SELNEC-wide system. So here is a typical Rochdale Corporation bus of old.<\/p>\n For a while, and well into PTE livery days. the historic route numbers remained …<\/p>\n Things were much the same along the road at Bury which had a distinguished but “stolid” green livery.<\/p>\n … then there is Rochdale bus station …<\/p>\n … and all the on-line publicity including the journey planner.<\/p><\/div>\n … it will be better than the first batch of Bees, won’t it?<\/p>\n It couldn’t he much worse than last time, Andy!<\/p><\/div>\n