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Looks like people will need to start scanning their mtickets with the QR code that is displayed when a ticket is active, from the 3rd of October. There's a notice on the website and on the driver's cab door (as shown on 6864).


Hopefully this increases revenue and reduces fakes (especially with the schoolchildren!) although I believe it has been previously said that it may slow down boarding times.

A week or two ago, I had a flyer through my letterbox from the Councillors for Bartley Green about what they've been doing since their last issue.

There was a section about buses this time though:

The Bus services in Bartley Green Ward has seen many changes in recent gears. Route changes and services discontinued, which has done little to improve the overall services or encourage people to use public transport. This issue has become exacerbated by the introduction by this Labour Council of the clear air zone, costing many £8 a day to drive into the City Centre. With no realistic transport alternative available to many, something needs to be done.

Campaign co- Ordinator Kerry Brewer along with Councillors Bruce and John Lines are campaigning with support from West Midlands Mayor Andy Street to review the Bus services in Bartley Green. Ensuring there is a faster, more direct route into the City Centre, routes likened to the old number 12 or 25 bus routes. These issues are to be reviewed along with the dangerous bus terminus on Genners Lane which is causing congestion and a danger to motorists when up to 3 or more busses are parked up. Hopefully we can convince the experts at NX West Midlands to provide the public transport Bartley Green residents deserved.

Whilst this does have a valid point about the 23's terminus, there's no mention about how Bartley Green already has 4 routes serving it (the X21 recently being extended to serve it) as well as the fact that NX have invested new buses for three of those routes.

Just wondered what opinions people had on it.

All typos are made intentionally as that was how it was.

Let's say that a bus is running quite late (to the point where you've got another one or two other buses behind that bus), outbound.

The bus is now returning inbound, still quite late (so another bus leaves with it)  Would it be able to skip part of the route in order to recover time?

Since the clocks go forward at 1am on Sunday, what happens to services that operate overnight (63, 97 etc)?

Do they have an extra journey or something else?