Rather less buses around there given the closure of Market Street. At least the air feels cleaner. The wall for Piccadilly Gardens is just appalling though.
Replacing trams and trolleybuses with polluting desil buses was a big mistake especially when they could have modified the team and trolleybuses network.
Even today the tram are very comfortable, on time and don't stop if there isn't anybody waiting at a stop, something bus drivers do to have a read of their newspapers.
At 3.18 a mid-'70s ex-Glasgow/London Country Alexander-bodied Atlantean working for Stuarts of Hyde, heading for Princess Street via Cannon Street and Cross Street before returning to Piccadilly via Mosley Street, probably on a "211" working to Hyde and Hattersley.
yes, it really was that bad - it should not have been but just as clean air legislation was ending coal smogs in the 1950's so many British cities started replacing zero tailpipe / clean air electric trams and trolleybuses with fume belching diesel buses in the 1990's the British govt. was more concerned that GM Buses was a large company (so it had to be split into two) than with air pollution. Manchester had some 70+ private bus companies but that was not enough for the politicians.
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I always remember when my kids were small and at Christmas time in Piccadilly garden’s they had a fun fair! Great times great memories
bring back the old days
oh perchance to visit them with a digital camera, empty memory cards and freshly charged batteries!
Bring back the choking days
Rather less buses around there given the closure of Market Street. At least the air feels cleaner. The wall for Piccadilly Gardens is just appalling though.
Wow I remember these old GM Buses & the yellow buses. This when fares were really cheap.
The green stagecoach buses are electric and have wi fi also very quiet.
yes, nowadays (2023) but not in those days
Replacing trams and trolleybuses with polluting desil buses was a big mistake especially when they could have modified the team and trolleybuses network.
Even today the tram are very comfortable, on time and don't stop if there isn't anybody waiting at a stop, something bus drivers do to have a read of their newspapers.
Note how there is a disgusting grey fog floating around from the old buses in 1994 but in 2012 there is nice clean air.
And the audacity of the bus advert @ 4:19 !
Yeah that lovely Weed ridden air in Piccadilly gardens now ;)
+EastStandManc: Quality..well spotted pal....:)....
The sound of the old buses are mint, these new ones sound absolutely shite
At 3.18 a mid-'70s ex-Glasgow/London Country Alexander-bodied Atlantean working for Stuarts of Hyde, heading for Princess Street via Cannon Street and Cross Street before returning to Piccadilly via Mosley Street, probably on a "211" working to Hyde and Hattersley.
That norweb shop featured on a BBC kids show that had a strange name can't remember what the show was called
Watching this is making me cough
Bloody hell ... Sparky :-D !
God, look at the diesel fumes lol
yes, it really was that bad - it should not have been but just as clean air legislation was ending coal smogs in the 1950's so many British cities started replacing zero tailpipe / clean air electric trams and trolleybuses with fume belching diesel buses
in the 1990's the British govt. was more concerned that GM Buses was a large company (so it had to be split into two) than with air pollution. Manchester had some 70+ private bus companies but that was not enough for the politicians.
@@CitytransportInfoplus I remember it lol, still we got people from a 2 z.
Just think that China even in 2019 use out of date smoggy buses in major cities that look similar to this
You can almost smell it
"Keith Lemon - the film" - the past is a different world
Maybe it was, but equally so is what the future will look like - same planet but also a very different world!