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I hope they do go back to their original route thank you. It's now a longer walk for me to connect other services I catch to work. The drivers are saying they will be moving back in 6 months time.

Not everyone is going to agree with you on changes, so the selfishness isn't needed.

The worst one of these changes is the fact they've moved all the Stratford Road services to one stop, when the stop before was in use, whose idea was that to do that?

Also the 97 now takes a long detour that you moaned the Perry Barr services did.

It's a longer walk for 'selfish' me as well, I have to walk from the 50 at Selfridges but it has made a difference on the outward journey yesterday by at least 5 minutes. You are right about the 97 (my old route) but it's a big difference for a route that has 8-10 buses an hour compared with the 33/51/907/934-7/997/X51 which have around 35 buses an hour combined.

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.

The 907 coming out of the City Centre was brilliant, straight under the Lancaster Circus underpass

Can anybody confirm that the City Centre stops will go back to how they were when the Metro work on Moor St is completed?

I certainly hope so anyway.

I hope not, the time it took the 33, 51, 907, 934-7, 997 and X51 to get around Carrs Lane, The Square Peg and The Law Courts to Lancaster Circus was ridiculous in peaks, so thanks, but no thanks

Are the express Perry Barr services going under Lancaster circus Queensway? I wonder why the stops have been moved when the  X21/22 are still using moor street Queensway anyway.

I think the the new stop on Priory Queensway is much better, I found the Square Peg stop was horrible, I hated it. I came into the City this morning on the 907 and the new arrangement was fine. I'm optimistic that my journey out of City will be quicker than going from the Square Peg stop as there will be no going past the Courts and Hospital on the way out.

Amazon service 64: 
I'm wondering how this and the peak route X64 (strange route number) are doing as they have been running a few months now. I know Amazon have funded these services but why haven't NX advertised these routes more to gain extra passengers because no one is going to get on it if they don't know what it is.

Do deckers on the 60 struggle with turning around at the Cranes Park terminus, or is the crossroad wide enough?

The shouldn't do, they've been doing it for years

Track works across Moor Street Queensway from 7th April 'until Autumn'.

There will be various stop closures and diversions during that time:
https://www.tfwm.org.uk/plan-your-journey/major-roadworks-and-events/eastside-birmingham-city-centre/moor-street-queensway/

Good news having the Perry Barr services on Priory Queensway (near 65/66/67 stop), The Square Peg stop is OK but in peak hours it takes so long to get through Moor Street, Carrs Lane and Lower Bull Street. The outward journeys will be quicker getting to Lancaster Circus

Unnecessarily confrontational response once again. He hasn't said that they shouldn't use that route, just an observation that the Carrs Lane route, which can be a bottle neck, will see a lot of traffic.

Thank you

In April until June Diamond is diverting the 16A out of City via Carrs Lane due to Metro work. So all other buses will presumably follow the same diversion, That's lot of buses using Carrs Lane !

The way electric buses are scheduled means fewer buses are out all day on the same route. This is the reason for the lack of route branding in Coventry

This is my point, I just think route branding's time has probably come and gone, if it was to continue I  would suggest group branding eg

PB - Network Sutton - X3, X4, X5, X14 and 907
BC - Network Chelmsley - X12, X13, 14, 94, 95 and 97

I'm led to believe that the new electrics at PB will not be route branded due to them going onto different routes on a working day.
Are we going to see route branding becoming a thing of the past ?

I'm led to believe that the new electrics at PB will not be route branded due to them going onto different routes on a working day.
Are we going to see route branding becoming a thing of the past ?

If true, that's a major supplier of BRT artics (e.g. Belfast Glider) leaving the market. Sprint procurement implications?

https://www.sustainable-bus.com/news/van-hool-stop-production-buses/

Great, we'll have double deckers instead !
Artics will be unpopular with passengers.

They are nothing like an Omnilink

I can't any other garage wanting them 

No, to the best of my knowledge, PB, WB and YW are the only garages never to have had these. (And BY when it was open)

That may change in the near future though...

I hope so, I much prefer the Volvo's (from a passengers point of view).
What is more interesting is what will happen to the Scania double deckers ?