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It should cap it at £4.50 via card payments as long as you used NX buses for all trips. You may have an issue if you caught a non- NX bus in the West Mids on one trip though. I'm old school though and would much rather have a paper ticket so would pay cash knowing there won't be any issue then.

If you ask the driver before scanning the card a paper ticket can be issued, 

The 66 shared that stop with them with no issues at all. Was a silly choice moving it.

The 65/67 moved down to the new stop.
The 33/51 use the old 65/67 one.

I'm guessing they've realised that operationally PQ12A was a stupid idea when there's a queue of 94&95s all trying to unload/load and change drivers

I can't see how putting the 66 on the new 65/67 stop is a good idea either when 65/67's and at times the 68/X64 always seem to be parked there waiting time and loading/unloading. And there seems to be even less space than at PQ12A.
Wonder if something using SQ7/SQ8 on Colmore Circus would be a good idea?

From 28th April there will be further stop changes in the City.
Updated bus stops in Birmingham City Centre | NX Bus West Midlands

X21/X22 will stop at MS10 and then directly opposite at MS12 on the other side of the road.

4620 is on the late night 45's tonight.

Is the Tamworth outstation still open? If so, what routes does it operate

20, 76/A/B.

I caught 4928 from the "The Ward End" 28 stop this morning. On the 95 to the City.
I got to my stop and when I checked bus times saw the 94/95 I was waiting for was on the Alum Rock Road, so walked down St Josephs Road and got 4928 from there.

Was Diverting to City: Left onto Alum Rock Road where the 28 turns off at the fox and goose, Highfield Road, Washwood Heath Road
And From City: Highfield Road, Alum Rock Road, Sladefield Road, right back onto Washwood Heath Road.

Seems like the 822 was missing today? I usually see it go past but no sight of it today (or on bustimes).

It tracked up to Five Ways as the 14:53 14 to Chelmsley Wood.

I suppose these changes will benefit some and hinder others.
I mean I'm not sure why the X21/X22 has to terminate in no man's land. I am surprised it didn't go up to Square Peg with 23/24/45/47/97 and do the same loop round that the 45/47/97 is doing.

Its not really no mans land is it. Maybe any passengers who want to go to the university across that way may find the new stop useful.
And since I presume Walsall don't use it to layover anymore with the hydrogens out of use, it probably makes sense to use that stop.

With the Stratford Road I presume that stop before can be used as overflow area?

I wonder why the stops have been moved when the  X21/22 are still using moor street Queensway anyway.

To allow for a lane closure. Those stops are no good, if the bus can't stop at the pavement.

If Hydrogen Buses are also ordered and ran I assume the Prefexs maybe be kept to designate E for Electric and H for Hydrogen although it could be that maybe as they get more Electric buses and they become the most common only Hydrogen keeps its prefex

It used to be that the numbers can't be reused. If this is still the case, certainly the solos carried 2XX 3XX numbers? So maybe why they have the prefix as well?
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It would be up to Amazon to promote these services to their workforce, after all that is who these services are aimed at, not so much the 'general public' who are able to make use of them.

Imagine a situation where the buses are so busy with 'other passengers' that Amazon workers are unable to get on them! Amazon would be rightly pissed!

I think it was said it was being funded by Amazon through section 106 funding.

I doubt that is what is actually happening currently, but surely that busy bus would be great for the service, securing its long term future as well. Makes more sense for people to be using the service and the community benefiting, than it driving round empty burning fuel all day. And if that was ever to be the case a better frequency throughout the day and/or higher capacity vehicles could surely be looked into to match the demand.

Whoevers 'good' idea it was to invent the X8 was wrong. The 126 is more direct. There is only one service to Wolverhampton and it takes a very indirect route. I would bring back the 140 to Blackheath and send the 13A to Dudley. Only because the Hagley road already has a good frequency. So the 140 wouldn't need to be so regular.

There's probably not much difference in it between the X8 and 126. Minutes if that.
Who exactly do these proposed changes benefit. Taking away a direct service from Rowley Regis, if there wasn't demand for an every 20 minute direct service from Rowley to Quinton and onto Birmingham NX probably wouldn't run it.

If you want a fast service to Wolverhampton thats what the train and the metro do.

Lots. Who wants to change onto 3 or more buses. Simplify them all with some rerouting re evaluation then maybe some services won't be needed.

Because everyone who used the 68 travelled all the way round the whole circle on it? And got off exactly where they started?
Which journey is this where you need to travel on 3 or more buses?

Bring back the 68A/C circular, under a new service number that isn't in use. Maybe 69A/C

Isn't most of the route covered by the 96, 71, 64 today? What new links would that create?