摘要: |
Phase one of Transport for Greater Manchester's franchised Bee Network arrived almost 54 years after its predecessor was born with an earlier plan to unify the city region's bus services. The organisation that hit the streets on November 1, 1969 was Selnec PTE, slick sixties shorthand for South East Lancashire North East Cheshire Passenger Transport Executive, a child of a Labour government on a mission to provide big cities with integrated public transport. The PTE was established two months earlier, and on this fateful date took over 11 municipal transport departments: Manchester, Salford, Ashton-under-Lyme, Bolton, Bury, Leigh, Oldham, Ramsbottom, Rochdale, Stockport and the splendidly named Stalybridge, Hyde, Mossley & Dukinfield Board better known as SHMD. |