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They seem to have switched to a new font and layout of the destination displays today, which makes the text a fair bit bolder and easier to read. Not all buses have been updated yet, though.

My local pools have signage specifically declaring I believe that children over the age of 9 years are not allowed in changing rooms for the opposite gender. My preference is for pools to have a large unisex area with lockers etc. shared but the actual changing facilities taking the form of...

Agree with the sentiment about the 150s but there are nowhere near enough 195s to start sending them for scrap unfortunately...

Metrolink doesn't share track with Network Rail - the Metrolink routes that were previously mainline ones were converted for the exclusive use of trams

I could see that being successful to some extent but I do think it would have to serve the city centre to appeal to the student market. Having people change to the train is a sensible idea in principle but doomed to fail without proper integration of fares, timetables and marketing, which...

I've certainly seen signs at stations saying that parked bicycles are liable to be searched.

Also, almost nobody is going to sit on it all the way from East Didsbury to Rochdale - the line exists predominantly to serve a variety of overlapping, more local journeys.

I think some Karlsruhe Tram-Train vehicles might have them

From my perspective - which is just as a passenger - both machines have their pros and cons. Using ITSO cards on the Vix machines feels very fiddly. You put the card on the reader and it beeps, but if you take it off at that point it gives an error. You have to leave it a couple of seconds...

Wythenshawe may need some double-deckers as a couple of major services are transferring there from Stockport. On the other hand, Stockport currently has very few single-deckers, and the ones they do have are almost entirely short E200s and Solos. So I imagine they put out a fair few...

My impression was that the E200, which was what one might describe as a "midi-bus", and the E300, which was a full-sized single decker, had both been replaced by the E200MMC, which is available in a greater range of lengths covering both categories. Are diesel StreetDecks and MCV-bodied Volvos...

This has changed somewhat in the last year or two, but it was for a long time the case that Stagecoach ordered the large majority of their buses from Alexander Dennis Limited, and when they went elsewhere it was usually because the ADL range didn't offer anything suitable. I was a little...

I think in the long term they might be better off referring to lines by letters anyway. They're already displayed as "Y", "B" and "P" on the front of trams and if the ambition is to extend the system then there aren't that many sensible colours to go around. Could also use the same letters for...

Indeed. I only counted the E400MMCs with a 17 registration or later but there are plenty of slightly older ones which are basically the same apart from the number plate. So a few of those, even if the Sharston EVs don't move, or perhaps a few transfers in from other Stagecoach subsidiaries would...

So going off Bustimes - which obviously has to be taken with a pinch of salt - and looking at double deckers only, that leaves, by my count - 23 new-build E400EVs - 34 new-build E400MMCs - 77 E400MMCs registered 2017 or later that could transfer from Ashton, Hyde Road or Stockport when they...

Any idea what their eventual replacements will be? Are there more new-build E400MMCs on order?

You're right, it does say that. But it also says on the right-hand side under "Key dates" that it opened in 1830... Moral of the story: don't trust Wikipedia, I suppose!

There's apparently one train a day, on Saturdays and Sundays only, which calls at both East Linton and Newton-le-Willows. If Wikipedia is to be believed, the former opened in 2023 and the latter in 1830. Can't immediately think of anything likely to beat that but I'm sure I'll be proven wrong.

It certainly is true that what I saw yesterday was the Scanias with them working fine, and a wide range of issues on the other vehicles.

I entered it at the self checkout machine and it applied the discount automatically - no yellow stickers involved.