The Mayne thing is people keep their jobs.

Judging by the poor service you get from Maynes I think they are still using the original horse and cart.
After 20 years of them driving past, leaving you standing at bus stops and generally not turning up I cant wait!

I agree with George.

i thought the whole point of privatising the public transport network was to encourage competition. appears that very soon there will only really be Stagecoach in South Manchester and possibly once that happens prices will be subject to upward movement.

When stagecoach took over Dennis Bus company they said there would be no job losses What do they do cut down the number of buses on the route so drivers were not needed the same thing will happen if they take over Maynes Hope the monopolies people have sense and reject them

what a sad day for the bus user,s of east manchester, maynes are one of this country"s most respected independant bus company"s stephen mayne should admit he has not sold out but has been forced off the road by evil stagecoach we have wittnessed it already in manchester,the people of Darlington tried to stop a stagecoach takeover but failed and the result was a disgrace, manchester residents should take note of what is happening in preston at the moment with stagecoach using tactics to also force the well run and respected Preston bus of the road! we will soon have no competition in the bus industry,most of the mayne routes will be disbanded, that nasty evil women margaret thatcher insisted municipal and large p t e companies be sold and run with shareholders in mind include ing the foolish employee,s of greater manchester transport offered 3000k to sell out along with their working practice,s but maynes continued through all the changes working in harmony with manchester corpo ration transport dept from sunnyside road droylesden into stephenson square resisting any takeover until now, and the dirty tactics of stagecoach following ,and leading maynes buse,s along ashton new road , stagecoach are also the new operator of the metrolink in the near future so the ashton -new -road corridor will be stagecoach territory when extended ,charging passengers high fares and as mentioned above ceasing routes not to their likeing I am sure stephen mayne has thought long and hard about this sad decision but with the huge developement of east manchester and beyond im certain maynes the local bus company would have survived, one thing i am sure of if Arthur Mayne was informed of this stephen mayne would get a clip round the earhole and sent packing from the company!
to end using the no 76 stagecoach on two occasions recently the driver did not have a clue as to where my destination was and also i had to ask for a ticket and was charged half the fare than usual, so good luck brian souter with your poor service and losing money! and sorry to lose you and your buses and exellent staff Mr Mayne

The bus industry was completely ruined by Thatcher, I feel it was one of her greatest foul ups.

Selnec and GMT provided a great service, a comprehensive network of routes and services which were reliable and affordable and helped keep traffic off the roads but as it was in the public sector,that lunatic had to interfere with it, just for the sake of it and sold it to a succession of mickey mouse fly by night firms, all of whom were swallowed up by Stagecoach so there is now a private monopoly which is infinitely worse than a public one as Stagecoach's only interest is lining the pockets of its greedy owners

I would confiscate it and close it down and return the buses to Greater Manchester Transport, paint them orange and white again (not the later livery which included brown, that was awful)

I hope others have made representation to the OFT as I have. Its inevitable the deal will go ahead but some check on Stagecoach needs to be a condition, eg an independent committee to approve fares, route and time changes.A private monopoly completely undermines the idea of competition which was the whole idea of de-regulation. Stagecoach have
systematically driven other operators off the road and I fear for the consequences once Mayne disappears. The horrendous Magic buses I see have now returned back to the scrapyard where they belonged having completed their under-cutting work.