'Free Creme Eggs' and the smell of McVities: Why the 192 bus is a Greater Mancunian adventure
manchestereveningnews.co.ukIt's just 9.5 miles long but it feels like quite an adventure. Once named Britain's busiest bus route - with nearly 10 million passengers a year - it's so Mancunian it's been immortalised in song.
It's been the scene of bus wars - with competing companies flooding the tarmac with vehicles in a desperate fight for passengers - and it stretches from suburban Hazel Grove all the way up to town.
I am of course referring to the 192, one of Manchester's most famous, and historic, journeys. As buses on the route pass through some of Stockport's and south Manchester's best-known landmarks, people from all walks of life jump on board.
You see all kinds of things - the ridiculous, the glorious, and the downright chilling. I hop on at 5.30pm at the Wellington Road South/Mersey Square stop, where there is a bit of a queue but plenty of seats.
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