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Since the council have gonna gone on a bulldozer rage on car parks to build more apartments I'd ban cars from coming into the city centre and make a shuttle service from just outsider the borders of the a4540 and make it every 10 mins or so, this could be an alternative to the tram which is always rammed 

Is 6713/14 on loan to bc or transferred?

It is in the garage and will be back on the road soon. It has just had a replacement engine fitted

can you confirm if it's a euro 3 or 4 variant of the trident engine?

Anyone know what's happening with 4633, use to love driving that bus just because it sounds beautiful, not seen it on the road or even garage

6867 (harborne branded) > X13 displaying X70

Ok.

This evening.

8pm I'm waiting at Allison Street for an X1 or X2. No bus stopped there for around 20 minutes (50, 17, 60, 97, x1, x2). A 6, 4a and 2 went past. The 6 and 4a was rammed, the 2 not so. The crowds at the stop was growing so I left them and took a long walk to Priory Queensway (via Barford Street/Pershore Street and the Bull Ring).

At Priory Queensway an x13 was at the stop but the driver got off and left. Other passengers were saying that they had overheard that the driver needed permission to continue but noone was answering the phone at the garage. Then a 95 and a 94 turned up together. The 95 had a driver change, and started letting people on (it seemed it was due according to the totem pole). The 94's driver wasn't letting anyone on, but then it was saying it weren't due for another 15 minutes. I got the 95 and walked back to Smith's Wood from Kingshurst.

Lots of fun. The poor drivers were getting shouted at by old drunk men who didn't seem to care that they had been working all day.

Yesterday I did an X12, got to the airport and I had loads of customers from the X1 stop run to my bus asking me where's the X1 and how long does it take for me to get to Birmingham, it was that bad that they caught my bus instead.

And the awful traffic around this week had nothing to do with it?

never said it didn't but no one is being adjusted so if one is late then it's affecting the other route, was never this bad when it was only operated by 1 garage

This 95/94 inter working has been shambles, 3 buses constantly running together

I'm wondering what the actual reason is for the 12/A to use city road instead of continuing down sandon road, isn't the service just going to be even more delayed, a bit annoying as I use those routes

Tridents have them but they only open the doors, some work some don't

I'm not being rude, but how can drivers not know about changes. Do they not get comms or radio messages / emails etc. Just curious really ?

we weren't told about any change on the day, it wasn't until an enthusiast told me about it that I had known, the change wasn't on any of the running boards either

Some interesting overheard driver gossip today.
Drivers taking about the closure of Birmingham Central and it's replacement garages. Kitts Green still seemingly going ahead but Longbridge has fallen through and NX are now looking at Kings Norton, possibly the old Triplex site.

think nx spoke about that online in an article

Its a bit ridiculous really, I don't drive, I don't live or work in the city centre and I hardly ever travel there now. Yet I've known about this CAZ for months.

people will say anything to get it delayed, there's enough signs and cameras telling you advance about the clean, I've seen one of those scrolling things from as far back as Coleshill road

4472 on X12

The E40Ds at NXWM have the facelifted headlights and bumpers, whereas the Trident ones have the older style. However, they can be changed over, at least with the bumpers, and certain operators such as Stagecoach specced their later ones with the pre-facelift fronts.

thanks mate appreciate it