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Greater Manchester bus route 184 is operated by First Greater Manchester.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Manchester High Frequency Network map )〕 The service runs hourly Monday-Saturday daytime on its full route between Manchester and Huddersfield via Oldham. The service runs hourly between Manchester-Diggle via Dobcross. The two hourly journeys are complemented by an additional one journey an hour between Uppermill and Manchester and four an hour between Grotton and Manchester. Combined with its sister service, route 180, which runs between Greenfield and Manchester, there are eight buses an hour with a bus running every 6–9 minutes between Grotton and Manchester. During evenings, route 184 runs an hourly service between Uppermill and Manchester and during the day on Sundays, the service runs its full route every two hours. Some journeys run between Uppermill and Manchester and the remaining run between Oldham Mumps and Manchester only.〔http://www.firstgroup.com/ukbus/greater_manchester/journey_planning/timetables/timetable.php?day=3&source_id=2&service=180/184/184X&routeid=7099301&operator=11&source=sp〕 ==History== The service started as route 14 on 15 May 1929, running between Uppermill and Manchester and was operated by ''Oldham, Manchester & North Western''. A couple of months later, route 13 (later re-numbered 183) was introduced running between Uppermill and Manchester via Delph, with journeys running as a 13 changing into a 14 at Uppermill and vice versa.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=14 & 184 - Manchester to Uppermill, Diggle and Huddersfield )〕 Over the years, the service did not go through many changes to the service, with its only changes being the terminus in Manchester, using Lower Mosley Street, Parker Street, Chorlton Street and Piccadilly Gardens, and the name of the operator, which changed from North Western to SELNEC (during which was re-numbered to 184), and then to Greater Manchester Transport and to Greater Manchester Buses. Following bus refegulation on 26 October 1986, the route was taken over by GM Buses. On 31 December 1993, GM Buses was split into two, GM Buses North and GM South Buses, the former of which became the main operator of route 184.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Greater Manchester Transport And Beyond )〕 In March 1996, GM Buses North was bought by FirstBus and renamed Greater Manchester Firstbus, later becomimg First Manchester and First Greater Manchester. In 2001, the service was extended from Uppermill to Diggle via Dobcross, replacing route 427, which was an all-stopping equivalent to route 184. The extension saw the end of the workings with route 183, which was extended to Greenfield to compensate for the loss.〔 In October 2004, route 184 underwent its biggest change, changing from an hourly express service, to an all-stopping service, running four buses an hour between Uppermill and Manchester, with one bus an hour extending to Diggle via Dobcross, while one bus an hour extended to Huddersfield via Marsden, replacing the First West Yorkshire route 365.〔 Due to the length of the route, First Greater Manchester would jointly run the Huddersfield service with First West Yorkshire, alternating between the two operators every two hours (First Greater Manchester ran the first two journeys to Huddersfield, First West Yorkshire ran the first two journeys from Huddersfield). The Huddersfield route ran slightly differently from route 365 route, as route 184 ran into Diggle village instead of by-passing it via Standedge Road and also originally diverted via Hard End in Marsden.〔 The Hard End diversion stayed in place until January 2005. A Sunday service to Huddersfield was introduced in April 2006, replacing Speedwellbus's 365 Sunday service. This meant in an 18-month period, the Huddersfield-Oldham route had changed from route 365 to route 184. The timetable underwent a major change in October 2012, which resulted in the end of the shared operation of the Huddersfield route between First Greater Manchester and First West Yorkshire on its eighth anniversary of its cross-county service. As a result, First introduced additional morning journeys towards Huddersfield and later afternoon/early evening journeys from Huddersfield to keep the main timetable in place. The additional frequency of services between Grotton and Manchester came as a result of a boost to the bus service in general as it felt that the original timetable of six buses an hour between Grotton and Manchester (combined with two 180 journeys) was too infrequent and was poorly managed in terms of timekeeping. It became appropriate to introduce the increase in services because the densely populated settlements of Clarksfield, Lees, Springhead and Grotton were receiving a poor service on the 180/184 especially compared to other services in the area which are heavily frequent such as the 83 serving Watersheddings, Moorside and Sholver. The altered timetable now means a total of seven 184's an hour serve Grotton, with four buses terminating at Grotton. Other timetable changes saw a reduction of buses running to Uppermill and Greenfield on its sister service 180.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.firstgroup.com/ukbus/greater_manchester/travel_news/news_initiatives/?item=7661&conf=0 )〕 Another change originally planned was to reduce the number of buses per hour to Diggle by terminating one of the buses at nearby Dobcross, leaving Diggle to be served by the Huddersfield journeys.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.transportforgreatermanchestercommittee.gov.uk/download/4444/item_07_forthcoming_changes_to_the_bus_network )〕 This decision was later reversed and the planned change was not implemented after local residents felt the changes would mean the services are too infrequent (especially the fact there would only be two buses an hour from Uppermill). However, the reduction of service in Saddleworth was met by criticisms by local residents and councillors, who felt it was encourage more people to use the car instead of buses and would disrupts links between bus and train at Greenfield railway station. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Greater Manchester bus route 184」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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