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PUBLIC transport users in Greater Manchester have less opportunity than car owners to be flexible in their choice of employment, a Transport and Road Research Laboratory report has concluded.
The report on access-to-employment opportunities by car and bus in inner and outer Manchester followed a travel-towork survey of 3,000 employed adults in 1978. It looked at the partnership area comprising Moss Side, Rusholme, and Levenshulme, the Wythenshawe council estate, and the suburb of Swir‘ton and Pendlebury.
Parking and congestion difficulties restricted the number of car journeys into the city centre. Thirty-nine per cent of bus journeys from the partnership area, 33 per cent from Wythenshawe, and 15 per cent from Swinton and Pendlebury went to the city Bus users from Wythenshawe in particular were constrained in their choice by the limited number of bus routes from the area.
And, whereas Swinton and Pendlebury residents had good access by bus to non-local employment centres in outer Manchester, there are few circumferential bus routes from Wythenshawe to outer areas.
Details of the report (SR741) are available from the TRFIL at its Technical Information and Library Services, Old Wokingham Road, Crowthorne, Berkshire.