On Friday and Saturday evenings, from 8pm to 1am, bus services will divert around the Curry Mile in Rusholme. Services will divert from Oxford Road onto Hathersage Road, turn right along Anson Road to Dickenson Road and then resume their normal route.
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Piccadilly Gardens - Heaton Chapel - North Reddish
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