Multi -coloured buses.

Thanks to our Mayor, the wonderful Andy Burnham, we in Greater Manchester have these. They look very smart - inside & out.

Public control of Greater Manchester’s buses has been rolled out in stages since 2023.

Meant to say it’s known as ‘The Bee Network’. The worker bee is the most well known symbol representing Manchester and the region, and was adopted during the Industrial Revolution. The liveries of the trams, buses and bikes will be yellow and black, representing the worker bee.

Here there are different colours for different routes, could that be the answer?

Ah, yes, a possible explanation. I get travel sick, and I am at my worst on buses, with all the stop starting and jerking, so I avoid any bus journey longer than an occasional short park and ride journey - and even those will leave me queasy on a bad day, that means I have never really studied their routes. I will start looking.

I love our Bee Network buses.

Was in Norwich several years ago and the buses were called turquoise line etc

I don't care about the colour, I care about whether I have an adequate bus service (which I don 't thanks to mainly Tory cuts and useless privatisation).

I don't care about the colour of the buses either, travel sickness comes between me and travelling onbuses.

I just wondered why the buses were suddenly blossoming lke flowers and brightening up the landscape like they do. We are now moving to live in the centre of a town with all services accessible on foot or in a buggy, so that can svoid travelling by bus.

Whingey

Was in Norwich several years ago and the buses were called turquoise line etc

We also have blue, pink lines etc for different routes.

I find that so unhelpful. I want to know the destination of the bus I am waiting for, not a colour.
Ours are mainly green, but sometimes bright orange. If a red one comes, it is an old one.

I’d love lots of different colour buses

Just good old red buses around here.

We have several companies running buses in different liveries, often on the same route. It used to be infuriating enough having to wait for the right colour to come along when I was in town and had a day ticket for just one company - even worse, and mighty confusing, when the largest company decided to go for different colours for different routes (the purple line, green line, etc). Identifying them as they tootled towards you was a challenge, and I let the wrong bus go past more than once. Thank goodness for the senior bus pass; now I can just hop on any one! And thank goodness too for a Mayor who’s started to sort it all out.

We used to have all the same colour brown but now have quite a few different colours and it’s because they buy buses up second hand from other areas.
At the moment we have mainly blue, red, yellow and brown and it’s nothing to do with the routes very confusing and doesn’t look good

Many years ago, York had a different colour bus for different route. So you’d wait for the burgundy bus for one, the yellow for another…

As a former Chinese leader said, 'I don't care whether the cat is black or white so long as it catches mice.'

grandMattie

Many years ago, York had a different colour bus for different route. So you’d wait for the burgundy bus for one, the yellow for another…

What a good idea 👍🏻 Grandmatti

I think that sounds great. I like colourful anything, including buses.

I didn’t realise the different colours would be a “challenge”. Surely they would also say where they were travelling to. Just realised, some people are colour blind- oh maybe not such a good idea.

They do (usually) say where they’re going. But if you’re in a queue waiting for a particular one - and especially if it’s raining or if it’s behind another bus, or a lorry - it’s not always possible to read the sign in time to get your hand out. Not when you’ve been blessed with dodgy eyesight anyway.

And the other issue is that different companies often run the same route, and offer day tickets that can’t be used on other buses. DS lives near a hospital and five, or maybe six, different bus companies go there from the centre of town.

henetha

I think that sounds great. I like colourful anything, including buses.

Yes, I absolutely agree, I love all our brightly coloured buses. Often you see three or four all travelling together. Each different colour. It lightens my heart. Funny how buses always like to traavel in herds.