Passengers in Greater Manchester are at the losing end of a bus operator’s battle with staff shortages - with more than 800 journeys cancelled in just one week. Rosso, which runs routes predominantly in the north of the conurbation, axed 837 services between April 25 and May 1.
Amounting to the cancellation of an average 100 journeys a day, most of the hit was taken by passengers in Rochdale, with customers in Oldham, Bury and Bolton also impacted. The operator told the Manchester Evening News that all public transport operators had been affected by staff shortages. This is backed by a Unite survey which showed 99pc of depots had workforce gaps, with low pay identified as a primary reason for workers leaving the profession.
But Rosso say that their attempts to add services to timetables rather than reduce them like other firms had made the impact for their passengers more 'pronounced'.
