a chance for service s to be greatly improved , I have just taken part do not suppose there are as many members in the forum for this area as Redditch area
What suggestions have you made Bewminster?
Quote from: sonic84 on September 10, 2013, 07:50:55 PM
What suggestions have you made Bewminster?
just one at the moment that is adding one more run or slight change to timetables that the service finish just half an hour later at 6.30 to give workers who finsh at 6 pm a little bit more time to get there last bus home. I there are other things but not put them down yet
Just completed this myself. Thanks for pointing it out Bewminster
Won't let me do it on my ipad as I was going to suggest a service that diamond could possibly try that Whittles currently, albeit unreliably because of traffic and having to run to Bridgnorth, run on, the Stourbridge to Kidderminster corridor.
Quote from: the #trainbasher on September 11, 2013, 01:08:02 AM
Won't let me do it on my ipad as I was going to suggest a service that diamond could possibly try that Whittles currently, albeit unreliably because of traffic and having to run to Bridgnorth, run on, the Stourbridge to Kidderminster corridor.
Yeah the 125 is notorious for being up to an hour late on a regular basis!
Quote from: StourportSam on September 11, 2013, 12:04:58 PM
Quote from: the #trainbasher on September 11, 2013, 01:08:02 AM
Won't let me do it on my ipad as I was going to suggest a service that diamond could possibly try that Whittles currently, albeit unreliably because of traffic and having to run to Bridgnorth, run on, the Stourbridge to Kidderminster corridor.
Yeah the 125 is notorious for being up to an hour late on a regular basis!
a Kidderminster Stourbridge service via hagley would be good as the whittles on goes via Norton, maybe even with linking a diamond black country route up to it make a Kidderminster merry hill Dudley service
Quote from: bewminster on September 11, 2013, 12:24:37 PM
Quote from: StourportSam on September 11, 2013, 12:04:58 PM
Quote from: the #trainbasher on September 11, 2013, 01:08:02 AM
Won't let me do it on my ipad as I was going to suggest a service that diamond could possibly try that Whittles currently, albeit unreliably because of traffic and having to run to Bridgnorth, run on, the Stourbridge to Kidderminster corridor.
Yeah the 125 is notorious for being up to an hour late on a regular basis!
a Kidderminster Stourbridge service via hagley would be good as the whittles on goes via Norton, maybe even with linking a diamond black country route up to it make a Kidderminster merry hill Dudley service
It may be a good idea in principle, but the route it would have to take to would be through rural areas / small villages where car ownership is high & demand for a bus service I would imagine is low. I can't really see the potential traffic making a service commercially viable without subsidy
The Kidderminster - Blakedown - Hagley - Stourbridge service has been tried several times before, and never worked out. However, now that the 192 no longer runs to Birmingham, it is possible that if a service linking those villages with Merry Hill was introduced it may be more successful. Perhaps even trialing it just during the weekends may be a start.
The biggest improvements I would like to see for Kidderminster are the introduction of evening routes on key lines such as the 2/3/10 and the introduction of a sunday service. I'd also like to see the 2 rerouted to serve Hales Park again.
I also wonder whether there is any need for the 295 to serve Wilden when this area is pretty much covered already by the 15. Could we not have a direct service running between The Walshes and Kidderminster via the Stourport Road.
Quote from: sonic84 on September 11, 2013, 01:23:26 PM
The Kidderminster - Blakedown - Hagley - Stourbridge service has been tried several times before, and never worked out. However, now that the 192 no longer runs to Birmingham, it is possible that if a service linking those villages with Merry Hill was introduced it may be more successful. Perhaps even trialing it just during the weekends may be a start.
The biggest improvements I would like to see for Kidderminster are the introduction of evening routes on key lines such as the 2/3/10 and the introduction of a sunday service. I'd also like to see the 2 rerouted to serve Hales Park again.
I also wonder whether there is any need for the 295 to serve Wilden when this area is pretty much covered already by the 15. Could we not have a direct service running between The Walshes and Kidderminster via the Stourport Road.
The Kidderminster hagley Stourbridge service last a lot longer than the Kidderminster-Norton Stourbridge service those villages as you say are on the main A456 agree with you about evening buses & sunday ones on the 2/3//10 as i would use the 10 @ the 2 as I go from spenlles to bewdley in a evening and sundays agree with you about the 2 being re routed to servere hales park the 295 was the only route to serve wilden till 2011 I think it was , the 15 always used to go direct to stourpor on the main stourport road and then on to bewdley. the bit of the stourport road that is missed out where the 3 goes around birchen coppice eastate. could maybe served by the x3 giving 1 bus a hour for the offices and factories along there .
vehicles carrying review sheets in Kidderminster today (the ones I was on anyway)
Quote from: bewminster on September 26, 2013, 06:46:14 PM
vehicles carrying review sheets in Kidderminster today (the ones I was on anyway)
There's also a stock of them in Kidderminster Town Hall.