The 408 bus service provides an hourly daytime link between Shaw and Oldham with weekday peak and tendered evening and Sunday services extending to Stalybridge.
These journeys provide a unique bus link to Oldham centre for residents in parts of Buckstones, High Crompton and Thornham.
First Manchester has advised of their intention to withdraw the Monday to Saturday off peak daytime service between Oldham and Shaw.
I am pleased to report that Transport for Great Manchester (TfGM) has sort other operators for the replacement of these journeys operating between approximately 9.15am and 2.15pm on Weekdays and 9.15am and 5.15pm on Saturdays.
These services will be operated by Rosso starting after Saturday 2 April.
So people in the Buckstones area who do not have their own transport are not supposed to go out in the evening then. The transport in this area is getting worse because the 435 does not run in the evening or Sunday, so much for progress everything is going backwards instead of forward.
It is just the off peak that Rosso are replacing as First has given notice to withdraw the that part of the service. First will still operate the peak services as they do now. Apols if my post did not make this clear.