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Is the 9 the latest route to get to sample the Platinums during university holidays or something?

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Here's the timetable (you'll have to scroll down a fair bit), stops at Stand J Pool Meadow (the current 9/9A to Coventry station one, making it closer than the 11/12X stands!), and at the exact same stands at the Rail Station and the University as the 12X.

Coming soon, the return of the U12, only this time between Coventry and the University of Warwick. Starts 4 Jan 2020, no route details yet as far as I can see.

Details here: https://www.stagecoachbus.com/promos-and-offers/midlands/warwick-and-leamington-unibus

From my experience in Coventry, the new app produces much more accurate estimates of next bus times than either the real time info at bus stops or any other apps, Google Maps included. It is still wrong fairly often, though - only the other day I had a bus counting down to Due when it had not actually arrived at the origin yet.

It takes much longer to buy m-tickets on NX Bus than on the old app, and it often crashes too.

A purple Platinum, probably 6957, was on another 11 to Kenilworth, followed a minute or two later by an 11 doing the full route to Leamington.
Interestingly, 6957 had "PART ROUTE" written highlighted beneath Kenilworth, at least on the rear blind. First time I've seen that!

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4831 - 23 Stoke Aldermoor
Continues to baffle me just how a bus racks up 26 minutes of delay by Sunday midday when there's almost no traffic

6957 - 11 Kenilworth

Pretty sure I saw 4371 on the 11 tonight too

The route map on the inside the 11/12X route branded buses has had connecting routes updated too (for instance, at Canley Sainsbury's).

I've noticed that the 11s have been quiet since Sunday - perhaps the whole announcement system has been switched off until the new stops on Corporation Street are recorded.

Unsurprisingly, now the 4 is every 15m it had mostly single deckers yesterday, with one ALX400 on the circuit.

The 10/10A were mostly double deckers, which makes a change for the old 5 which mostly got single deckers before the change. I also fear the Canley/Tile Hill halves of the 4/10A are going to get a lot less reliable now they also go to the other side of Coventry. The 10A I was on lost a lot of time on the way to Westwood.

I took a trip on the 3/3A and was surprised at how many people from Arena Park/Holbrooks were hoping to use the old 4 to get all the way to the Hospital, especially given the relatively wide range of alternative and more direct routes, at least from Arena Park. The driver was very helpful to anyone who had a question.

Facebook users don't seem particularly happy with the changes, with some seeing it all as rather pointless (and I'm minded to agree), but of course the people who comment are a bit self-selecting as bus users ambivalent about the changes probably won't chip in. So, hard to tell how it's all being received as a whole.

The traffic commissioner sets the definition of a frequent service as every 10 minutes or less. You'll see that 12X, 13 and 21 timetables are described this way too.

The route map they uploaded showed all 6/6A services going along Tile Hill Lane, and not serving Herald Avenue, which I assumed was either a mistake or easier than trying to depict something similar to what the current 5 does towards Tile Hill. Apparently not, then. While passengers from stops towards the city at least have the 4 and 11 running more frequently to Sainsbury's, pretty rubbish for anyone hoping to get back to Tile Hill. It can't be that much quicker either via Tile Hill Lane, can it? Besides the obvious point that you'd carry fewer passengers, which seems to defeat the point of a bus company. Baffling.

On a separate note, it looks like the 11 will go via Quadrant to Pool Meadow and via Burges/Corp Street to Leamington. I thought they were reducing the number of buses that took different routes through the centre in opposite directions? I opposed the rerouting but if they're going to go via Corporation Street at least run it both ways! Again, baffling.

Things to note:
- 8 8A no longer serve the railway station, as suggested in the consultation, but instead go to Eastern Green on the old 10 route, maintaining the same 15m frequency there.
- 10: Bell Green - Coventry - Earlsdon - Tile Hill South (i.e. the old 5), still every 30m.
- 10A: Bell Green - Coventry - Cannon Park - Prior Deram Walk - Westwood Business Park (i.e. the old 18A), still every 30m.
- in the evening and on Sundays, the 10 goes to every 30 minutes on the Bell Green side, with one bus an hour continuing to Canley Station, as per the current 5.
- the current 10A becomes the 10S.
- the frequency of the 11 has increased from every 20 to every 15 minutes. The 11U is no more, and instead morning/afternoon short journeys are just stated on the timetable as being term time only.
- the 12X is still advertised as being 'at frequent intervals', so probably stays the same at every 10 minutes.

The 13 timetable is now online, too:

8 8A
9 9A
10 10A 10S
11
12X