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Does anyone else think 6759- 7542 feel really slow, when onboard to make a journey the stop/ starting feels time consuming.

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Yes ready for the 96 when it comes back... don't forget your umbrellas!

They've already got enough for the 96, there's around 60-65 single deckers at PB, they're only required for the 8A/C, 28, 66, 71 and eventually the 96, the PVR for all of these is well below that !

1788/90/92 YW to PB

4843/4/6 PB to BC

4621/2/3 BC to YW

To deal with complaints of overcrowding on YW school time services since Green Bus cessation

More Scania's at PB !

20740 on College Road near Hawthorn Road at 0645 this morning, 
could be a breakdown

Well I would have thought the x22/x21 would have been better contenders then the 24/23. As they provide more useful links like a hospital and uni.

If you look at the 23/24 and 94/95 you'll see that the frequencies match for most of the time (every 10-12 minutes each, combining a 5/6 minute frequency), linking the 94/95 would create an imbalance.

I would think all the new cross-city routes would be operated by Electric buses

This what I would do:

C53 West Brom-Chelmsley Wood replacing part of 74 and all of 97
74 Dudley to West Brom only.

C55 Bartley Green-Chelmsley replacing 23 and 95
C56 Quinton Road West-Chelmsley replacing 24 and 94

C63 Frankley-Castle Vale replacing 61 or 63 and 67

C64 Longbridge-Hamstead replacing 16 and 45/47

I am getting bored with stupidity again

I agree, all garages have buses (not just Platinums) that vary, some are better than others and this petty commenting is pointless and has no substance to it. You can go back as far as you want, it the same with Metrobuses that varied, fleetlines, nationals etc.

I honestly can't see them coming.

I'm hoping those 24 articulated things don't come 

It's far easier to spend other peoples' money for the sake of spending it. We already saw this with BCC spending the funding they received on this first batch, without ensuring the fuelling infrastructure would be in place and fully functional at the time of delivery.

Besides, by the time these new hydrogen buses are delivered, Walsall garage will hopefully have their own hydrogen refuelling facility installed, rather than having to trek over to Tyseley every day.

Therefore it would make sense if these 100 hydrogen buses were for use at Walsall.

I agree entirely 

To be fair to the quoted poster, BCC still spent however many millions on the current hydrogens despite the infrastructure being miles off and an EIS being virtually doomed from the start.

It's not at all a silly comment at all when those pushing the buttons in govt (local and national) are aimlessly spending taxpayer cash to hit environmental targets and have something they can claim credit for. The electric rollout in Coventry has worked seemingly wonderfully, hydrogen evidently isn't quite there yet, and to be fair might not be by the time this next batch arrive.

Well if that's the case why have they been ordered ?

100 hydrogens, 50 in service and 50 parked at the depot then.

Very easy to make a silly comment like that. If what you stated was likely to happen then why would an order for Hydrogen buses be placed ?

Two nights now (Monday and Tuesday) the 907 from City at 1620, this comes off school bus service 814 (John Wilmot School dep 1520 to Stockland Green arr 1556), it never showed on Monday, Tuesday (I had to go home a different way) 7512 which was the bus allocated finally left City at 1656 !
This was a common problem in the last summer school term and if the 814 is late then it's a knock on effect for the 907 at 1620,  I've asked many times for this to be changed but nothing has. Today is Wednesday, will the 1620 be there today, I'm not confident.

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On the most recent photo of a Hydrogen vehicle, I noticed the seating listed at 38/25 - 63 seats in total.

What is the reason for these having lower seating capacities than the equivalent diesel bus?

It must be to do with the batteries and/or hydrogen tanks, the Electrics are only H39/26 - 65 seats in total. That's 8 seats less than a Platinum and 12 seats less than an Enviro. So on a service which runs every 10 minutes (6 buses an hour), that's between 48 and 72 seats less an hour for Electric buses and between 60 and 84 seats less an hour for Hydrogen buses. A big drop, some services may need frequency increases but with the drivers shortage I can't see that happening for sometime yet. I have that both the Hydrogen and Electrics are a pleasure to ride on and I like them very much.

According to bus times 7506 left john Wilmot school on service 814 but never made it to Stockland Green, which meant the 907 service from City at 1620 didn't run either.  This school journey needs to be removed from the 907 service, it happens too often