D&G Optare in Hanley

In the good old days PMT could have boasted over five-hundred buses in service in the Potteries but it's successor First Bus now rarely operates one-hundred. In fact just as in the old days Independents are still hard at work herem they might not be the Berresford's and Poole's of old but D&G who owns this Optare and which also serves the surrounding area now runs more buses locally than First does. On some busy corridors one only had to wait a couple of minutes for a bus to come along, now it's more like half an hour and it's hardly surprising people don't use buses more than they have to as those which do come along are often overcrowded.