First performance data shows that Manchester punctuality struggles

First UK bus punctuality

First UK bus punctuality

First has issued punctuality statistics for its UK bus division that reveal that none of its operations around the country met the group’s target of 95% of vehicles operating within the traffic commissioner’s six minute window of tolerance.

The figures, which relate to the October to December period of last year, show that First Manchester was the worst performing group subsidiary with just 81.5% of the operator’s services meeting the target of being no more than five minutes...