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Drove for a 4 1/2 hour stint with new ticket machine today was very impressed ..some passes still had to be scanned twice though while others were instant passengers keep putting card on the LCD screen which wont scan has to be lower down on the black area guess they will get used to it in time. Was really nice not having to enter any running board info, journeys, fare stages all updated as they should my only gripe was as the bus i was on was changing from 23 to 23a and i don't usually drive 23's i had to keep going back to running board to double check what route i was on even though it gives the journey it should specify route number as some running boards can do odd things when you least expect them too like a 6 leaving Vic farm for tanyard so many times drivers have misread and displayed 6a.

6013 towed back from hipswell highway on monday 21st

at least tickets are now actually readable .. and word of the day is pure genius

it will come apparently 6019 is as dead as a dead thing thats been dead

:'(

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6013 in service
6014 in service
6015 In Service
6017 Unsure of status
6018 in service
6019 Been told this will not be repaired
6020 No Idea where this is
6021 in service

Thanks Tony seems they are just rumours then.

6014 had window smashed at Arena park by youths  tonight

Latest bendi news 28.06.17

6013 - In service
6014 - in service
6015 - in service
6017 - in service
6018 - in service
6019 - off road turntable failure
6020 - off road uknown reason
6021 - off road turntable failure

(in service doesnt mean its on road today just means in general its in working order)

the rumour of scania bendi's coming to coventry is doing the rounds again interestingly some of the scania bendi's have reportedly been seeing been driven around birmingham (testing maybe)
what makes this more interesting is that apparently platinums have been cancelled for the uni routes so the current uni busses will not be moving to the 4 route after the current bendi's have gone this makes the scania rumour even more interesting but of course they only rumours

yes for about a month

really? 15 is back out? thats good news

4408 replaced early afternoon with repaired 6017

Latest Bendy news

6013 in service
6014 in service
6015 laid up not sure whats wrong with it
6017 havent seen in a while
6018 in service
6019 seems turntable has failed on this rumours will cost 20K to fix no idea if this will ever be out again
6020 off road not sure why
6021 in service

Thats really not a good idea, London road, daventry road are served by the 21 which is also a viable station bus (with a 5 min walk)
Quinton road is already served by the 23/23A which is also a viable station bus. The station is at max capacity really with the 8,9 and 11/12 already serving it
the 16 that ran from the shopping park to the hospital was most of the time pretty much empty the 16's passengers are mostly city centre to SA or Ernsford grange even the shopping park doesnt load or unload that many passengers really for a 10 min service you really dont want another hospital bus heading into the station when the 9/9a is a direct route and the 8 comes from very nearby too

6013 has now been repaired and is back on the road seen it out on friday but think it went back out on thursday

yep coolant leak apparently

meh i got my days mixed up it went back into service thursday afternoon not friday approx 1430
kinda silly mistake to make as i drove it friday morning