As reported last week Transport for Greater Manchester met last Friday to consider proposed changes to the bus network – mainly this affects the south west of Prestwich, but will also be of interest to residents who travel to these areas and use these bus routes for other journeys. Although here have been a couple of changes which do slightly improve the situation, the changes will now unfortunately happen.

The changes are:

92 (Manchester – Carr Clough – Pilsworth – Bury)
CLOSED

93 (Manchester – Carr Clough – Whitefield – Bury)
Changed to just Manchester – Carr Clough ONLY – but increased to every 20 minutes (currently every 30 minutes and the original proposal was for every 15 minutes)

95 (Salford Shopping City – Whitefield)
This hourly service is being extended to run through to Bury via Stanley Road, Parr Lane, Ribble Drive, Mersey Drive, Kennedy Drive, Parr Lane, Hollins Lane, Hollins Brow and Manchester Road.
In Prestwich the route is being amended from being along Hilton Lane, to along Butterstile Lane.
An ADDITIONAL service will now run along this route from Rainsough to Prestwich Village to make this part of the route half hourly.

97 NEW SERVICE (Manchester – Prestwich – Unsworth – Bury)
New service 97 operating between Manchester and Bury via Bury New Road from Besses o’th’ Barn, Thatch Leach Lane, Oak Lane, Ribble Drive, Parr Lane via Unsworth and Hollins and Manchester Road, Parkhills Road, Market Street to Bury Interchange.
The service will operate every 20 minutes Monday to Saturday daytime and every 30 minutes Sunday daytime.

98 – Manchester – Prestwich – Radcliffe – Bury)
Reduced from every 15 minutes to every 20 minutes – however the 97 and 98 combined will mean an every 10 minute service from Manchester to Whitefield up Bury New Road.

The good news is a good 10 minute frequency up Bury New Road from Manchester to Prestwich AND a good 15 minute service from the Carr Clough and Rainsough areas to Manchester.

The BAD news is
– less buses from south west Prestiwch to Prestwich village – currently these is a bus every 15 minutes from Carr Clough to the village and beyond, now these will only be every 30 minutes. In addition the buses will only run along Buttersitle Lane, so there is no service from the ‘bottom’ of Carr Clough at all.

– no through buses at all from the Rainsough/Carr Clough areas towards Hollins and NO service at all to Pilsworth.

Please do get in touch if you are affected by these changes – it may be that we need to highlight to First Bus and to T4GM just how important these bus links are to people.

Existing Bus Routes

New Bus Routes

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