I traveled on a 60 from Leeds to Bingley a fortnight ago, and we got "local vocal" (wasn't he the Chairman of the Yorkshire Dialect society?) to welcome us on-board, but from then on all the stops were announced in standard pronunciation.I find the Transdev ones useful, but the gimmicky local accent ones on the 60 annoying - not because of the accent, but because they're rambling so go on much longer than they need to.
Didn't BBC Look North's Harry Gration provide the voice for the stop announcements on the 36? Whatever, I've recently seen an advertisement on the Transdev website for Lancashire residents to come forwards and enter a competition to be the voice of one of the Transdev routes. I don't have a problem with local accents, but I did think the locally-voiced announcements on the 60 verged on parody; I find it odd when I visit Belfast that the announcements on Translink Metro are voiced in a plummy English accent, and not in the local dialect . . . and Eia St is pronounced "igher" not "eeiaah".
I use public transport a lot, but infrequently on the same route, and I find next-stop announcements really useful - particularly at this time of year when it can be dark, and difficult to see where one is, before the evening peak. And they don't annoy me on my regular route either - as a previous poster pointed out, buses aren't exactly a quiet environment free from irritation anyway. And as for announcing only major stops, that's a fat of lot of use if you don't know how the stop you want relates to the major stops being announced.