I think Alison Chew, TfGMs head of bus services, needs to try the service out for herself: "TfGM's interim Head of Bus Services, Alison Chew, said: "The Vantage services that operate along the guided busway provide a quality experience for the thousands of people who use them each day".

With responses like that, with people in charge who've clearly never used the service, what hope is there? Now let's build hundreds of new homes in Tyldesley, as obviously the infrastructure is there...