More than 20,000 trees have been planted by the National Trust across some of its sites in-and-around Greater Manchester as part of the charity’s ‘biggest ever nature conservation’ project in the area.
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Passengers in Greater Manchester are at the losing end of a bus operator’s battle with staff shortages - with more than 800 journeys cancelled in just one week. Rosso, which runs routes predominantly in the north of the conurbation, axed 837 services between April 25 and May 1.
Amounting to the cancellation of an average 100 journeys a day, most of the hit was taken by passengers in Rochdale, with customers in Oldham, Bury and Bolton also impacted. The operator told the Manchester Evening News that all public transport operators had been affected by staff shortages. This is backed by a Unite survey which showed 99pc of depots had workforce gaps, with low pay identified as a primary reason for workers leaving the profession.
But Rosso say that their attempts to add services to timetables rather than reduce them like other firms had made the impact for their passengers more 'pronounced'.
And passengers have suffered. Last Thursday, Rosso cancelled 59 commercial services and 86 which are subsidised by transport bosses, a total of 145. On Friday, a total of 106 services were cancelled in just the afternoon and evening - 28 commercial and 78 subsidised. The M.E.N has asked Rosso for a list of those services to be impacted next week.
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But for customers on Friday, the crisis meant there were no peak time afternoon services on the B2 service to Bury or the R9 Rochdale to Foxholes route. There were also no evening services after 7pm on the 480 from Bury to Greenmount, the B2 Bury service, on the B4 Heywood service, the R9 Rochdale route or the R10 from Rochdale to Shaw. Meanwhile, other services, including the 467 and 468, were slashed in
More than 20,000 trees have been planted by the National Trust across some of its sites in-and-around Greater Manchester as part of the charity’s ‘biggest ever nature conservation’ project in the area.
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