If you are travelling east on M60 towards the A56 junction (Prestwich/Whitefield) I'd look for an alternative. I'm on an X43 and driver has just abandoned trying to get onto the motorway and we've gone towards Bury.

I looked down onto motorway and there seems to be nothing moving.

Tony, are you on the same bus as me? Turning towards Pilswoth now?

ClaretPope wrote:Tony, are you on the same bus as me? Turning towards Pilswoth now?

Looks so - I'm downstairs

Me too.

I've got the orange puffer jacket on!

I'm the driver, I'm posting with my phone I also had eight pints of Lager before I started my shift.

This Bus is full of nutters ..

Sorry I didn't read all of it. I am not on the bus I am on the m60 near Prestwich in a car though. My uncle is driving.

I hope you didn't speak to anyone on the bus in an orange jacket.

I would love to meet you all. I am going to the cinema.

Just claretpope & me on the bus re members of this board - as far as I know.

ClaretTony wrote:Just claretpope & me on the bus re members of this board - as far as I know.

Read further up - there's 3 of you now. He has an orange puffer jacket on.

CT get a sing song going

This has the potential to be a classic thread.

Diesel wrote:I'm the driver, I'm posting with my phone I also had eight pints of Lager before I started my shift.

Lmao!

S0S-1971 wrote:CT get a sing song going

Wheels on the bus?

Bfcis4me wrote:Sorry I didn't read all of it. I am not on the bus I am on the m60 near Prestwich in a car though. My uncle is driving.

I hope you didn't speak to anyone on the bus in an orange jacket.

I would love to meet you all. I am going to the cinema.

What did you watch at the cinema?

Is an orange jacket classed as a step up or step down from a rose in the jacket lapel?

I'm the driver who has caused the traffic tailback.

Just wondering if CT and Claretpope have made it home safely ?

That is the junction i come off every night coming home from work and if i had a pound for every time there are delays there i would be able to buy Balaji Rao's medallion collection.

I think they've gone for a drink, but I don't know anymore then that.

Brilliant isnt it travelling home from Manchester at peak time. Ah the joys of the Smart motorway, 'Sinister Island' and crawling all the way back to Burnley. Fortunately I left early today and missed it but its like that most nights.

Owen Coyle has been working for Highways Agency traffic flow section .

An orange jacket? - is that a tabard?

Sidney1st wrote:I think they've gone for a drink, but I don't know anymore then that.

I need to know..........

mrhungryone wrote:I need to know..........

You'll need to wait for next weeks episode.

We're going to arrange for Paddy McGuinness to update us with how they got on at Fernandos.

Did they go for something to eat, or just a drink?
I assume they drink real ale, so which boozers were they going too, I can't stand half a tale.

Home safely, thanks for your concern.

No sign of Tony though ...

FactualFrank wrote:Read further up - there's 3 of you now. He has an orange puffer jacket on.

He was in a car

bodge wrote:Just wondering if CT and Claretpope have made it home safely ?

That is the junction i come off every night coming home from work and if i had a pound for every time there are delays there i would be able to buy Balaji Rao's medallion collection.

We did I am pleased to report

Good stuff let's hope there's no delays tomorrow, setting off via the famous Junction 17 in the morning myself.

bodge wrote:Good stuff let's hope there's no delays tomorrow, setting off via the famous Junction 17 in the morning myself.

Just make sure you are not going on the A556
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Would seriously suggest anyone going to Manchester takes the train as of Monday, and forever. 35 weeks of works start Monday to reduce Bury New Road in Prestwich to one lane each way, permanently.

It's the most insane traffic scheme I can imagine, pushed through by Bury council in the face of local opposition here, and it will bring gridlock to north Manchester and back into the already stacked M60.

I imagine the bus company might view this as the final straw for the x43 current route, but for now, bear this in mind if you're planning to use it as of Monday evening!

BobSykes wrote:Would seriously suggest anyone going to Manchester takes the train as of Monday, and forever. 35 weeks of works start Monday to reduce Bury New Road in Prestwich to one lane each way, permanently.

It's the most insane traffic scheme I can imagine, pushed through by Bury council in the face of local opposition here, and it will bring gridlock to north Manchester and back into the already stacked M60.

I imagine the bus company might view this as the final straw for the x43 current route, but for now, bear this in mind if you're planning to use it as of Monday evening!

That will be horrendous. I use the bus because it's free with my bus pass and I'm only around 3 mins from bus stop.

Bury New Road gets very busy at peak times. Can't imagine how bad it will become.