After 40 minutes of waiting in the freezing temperatures and snow, a V1 bus finally arrived at Bridge Street in Manchester to take weary city workers and Christmas market goers back to home.
It's a service on the Leigh Guided Busway - the Greater Manchester transport system once dubbed the 'misguided busway' by critics, before becoming popular with commuters, shoppers and revellers travelling into Manchester, and the businesses that serve them along the route. It goes from the city centre, through Salford, to the towns in the borough of Wigan.
It's a demand you can gauge by the tut tuts and tapping of feet I see hear from passengers eager to get home earlier this month - after a swift Hofbrau and a famous bratwurst at 2022's Manchester Christmas Markets.
