People on the street: Manchester’s night buses
Manchester is trialling two bus services that run through the night, to ensure that people stuck in the city later than expected don’t have to turn to expensive taxis or hotels to stay safe. We hit the streets of Manchester to ask the view of the people on the street.
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00:00Hi I'm Theo with Manchester World today I'm out on the streets of Manchester asking people
00:03about night buses and that's because here in Manchester we're trialling two new services
00:07which run right through the evening to avoid people getting stuck in the centre or having
00:10to fork out a lot of money for a taxi. If the trial goes well we could very well see
00:14it rolled out to many more services so I want to know whether people think it's a good idea
00:18or whether it's a waste of public money. Let's see what you said.
00:21It's a good thing and I think it's good to keep people safe.
00:25I think it's a great thing. I think it'll really help with making people feel a lot
00:33safer, they've got more options to get back to where they need to go.
00:39Considering I almost got stranded in town literally not a few weeks ago because I almost
00:44missed my last bus, oh my god yes. I think that's a brilliant idea because if you get
00:51stuck in town, if you're in town late on a Friday night and you miss your last bus
00:58you're spending about £30 for an Uber. So having a late bus that goes wherever and whenever
01:06I think that's going to do a lot of good. I think that's going to do a lot of good personally.
01:10I have to leave work 10 minutes or 15 minutes before I'm actually meant to just so I can
01:15get the last bus home on weekdays. As far as I was aware on weekends it goes to like
01:213 in the morning which is quite late but yeah I think if there was one that was just
01:26going all night that would be great for a lot of people.
01:30We did in Liverpool after an Elton John concert and we had to walk down into the city centre
01:36to get a taxi to go to where we wanted because there weren't enough buses.
01:41It should help people in that. Yeah, any major city should have a free night
01:45bus. As long as like maybe testing out how many
01:48people would actually use it. I wouldn't want money going to waste on something that's not
01:53going to be used but I can imagine it definitely would be.
01:57I'm Theo with Manchester World, follow us for more.