I know the fleetlist says reserve... but does anyone have a clue where these will end up, Derby maybe, Wardles?
Adam
I read somewhere they may be forwigston to join the other b7 geminis , i doubt they are for wardles as they are already painted in latest corporate livery . Tony
That's a possibility I guess, but remember, Wigston is part of Arriva Fox County ???
Oops, my mistake, Wigston is now part of Midlands isn't it?
pity cannock couldnt have one :(
Quote from: bob on July 10, 2012, 09:03:15 AM
pity cannock couldnt have one :(
Tamworth maybe if the 74/5 did not interwork with some 825 journeys the staffords could have so Cannock could have had some would stop having to have extra bus for 835 and 7 as most college students bought passes on bus or had ones bought direct off the company.
Do Cannock need deckers though?
one or two of the four buses on the 74/5 maybe it can get horrifically busy
or reduce the frequency of the 70 and run deckers on it again or as i said before the 1 doesnt need to be every 20 mins
Quote from: bob on July 10, 2012, 05:42:05 PM
or reduce the frequency of the 70 and run deckers on it again or as i said before the 1 doesnt need to be every 20 mins
Combining the frequency of the 1 and 2 would be better as you still have a half hour on each service and 15 mins combined on corridor as usually a 1 and 2 almost leave on top of each other from walsall or cannock
Youd have to take the 1 off the a34 onto a5 tho. Nobody uses the 2 do they? they put Mpds on most of the time, great for an interurban route, not!
Quote from: bob on July 11, 2012, 07:23:42 PM
Youd have to take the 1 off the a34 onto a5 tho. Nobody uses the 2 do they? they put Mpds on most of the time, great for an interurban route, not!
It does get a few at times the chesyln hay and the daytime bit around landywood station is where the main custom is
never enough for a full size bus tho, duno wots gone wrong with that route in nxwm days it used to be double decked and thats WITH the train service too before anyone goes on how goid the train service is lol
Just typical Arriva they have a good route and seem to have good loading but ruin it by hiking up fares so high thw Walsalls had a torrid rise compared with the others bet the fares would not have gone up if they had competition on the Walsall-Cannock
yep! thats thatchers shit deregulation for you initial competition followed by shit private monopolies
Quote from: Discodave on July 13, 2012, 12:02:05 PM
Just typical Arriva they have a good route and seem to have good loading but ruin it by hiking up fares so high thw Walsalls had a torrid rise compared with the others bet the fares would not have gone up if they had competition on the Walsall-Cannock
The problem is that route doesn't make money charging NXWM type fares. The reason NXWM dropped the 351 is because it made a loss. They tried running it with old metrobuses with very little depreciation costs, and then by using old solos which also had lower fuel costs, but it still didn't work.
Arriva were always going to have to up fares if the route was going to survive.
They put the prices up on the 1 too, does that run at a loss? at one time cannock was a really important place for nxwm. Do the peak time X51s make anything at the Cannock end? i dont know why they keep on a stupid o'clock 3 times a day crappy relic from the past?