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Two (President) 48Es to Weoley Castle earlier (around 3), I have a feeling the congestion in Bearwood may have had something to do with it

I saw a 48E Trident going to the QE in Harborne

7029 on the 16 into town.

Have a guess... Might stop posting if they actually started turning up on time.

Which one?

Just seen 2 8Es (one terminating at Saltley and the other Five Ways) followed by two 8As.

Yeah I think the scrolling display is better to be honest with you, but some routes have it scrolling in on direction but not the other way, like the 22/23 etc.

Hey, I was just wondering who makes the decisions on what is displayed on each route's buses and what the thought processes are.
I saw an X64 yesterday that said Birmingham, via QE Hospital instead of Birmingham Limited stop and it made me wonder. And like why some have scrolling and some flash through the pdifferent places.

Hagley road both directions was screwed peak hour  tonight due to a car accident traffic backed into broad st accident was just before Portland road outbound

Yeah it caused a lot of traffic along Broad Street / Five Ways too. The NX guy at the bus stop was kind enough to let us know what wws going on.

A 74 branded e400 on the 82

Occasional Tridents on the 22/23 aren't that unusual but today 4157, 4617 and 4633 are all on there, along with B7RLE 2136. Certainly not your usual allocations.

Saw another one on the 23 this morning.

Thankfully, Centro / TfWM have Bus Hailers that allow you to flip over numbers (Which are in braille as well as print) and tell drivers what bus service number the passenger is looking to get on.
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While these help, they are rather bulky and not everyone can carry them all the time. Branding therefore helps people have an extra piece of help when hailing a bus. I have good vision but on some buses, the destination display can be hard to read. Branding helps assist with a more visual aid to tell me that the bus is coming and also helps me prepare to stop the bus before it is flying past and it is too late.

Yeah, I'm all for the route branding as it helps a lot, I've never said otherwise. Quite the opposite infact. I struggle to see long distances and even with my glasses on can't see the display sometimes from a distance away especially the faded-out Trident displays. So again, I wasn't blaming anybody like that,  it was just a general comment.

I'm big enough and definitely ugly enough not to take any notice personally. 

I also have sympathy with people who can't wind their necks in for whatever reason, because I wouldn't say it was necessarily their fault.

You seem to have a very large chip on your shoulder, mate. I didn't say anywhere that blind people are at fault for their blindness or any of that other drivel you've accused me off. I made a general comment and you've gone out of your way to twist my words.

[it's your own fault]

LOL through disbelief - your original point was this, verbatim:

"if you can't spot that it says 59 on the front of the bus (or the back, or the side) then it's your own fault"

I find that offensive, like I find your flippancy towards people with a disability offensive.    (Sorry Tony and Admin.).   

I wasn't born with perfect vision - and I've had operations to sort it - but as far as you're concerned that birth defect was my fault.

Erm... actually that was in response to someone mentioning a 59 bus on a differently branded bus who thought it was the the branded number in circulation instead of the 59, so...  again... as I said, a blind person wouldn't have seen the branding either so I don't understand the need to bring that up. I'm not sure where I condemned anybody with disabilities exactly. It seems like you're trying to best to be offended and argue?

Why should they be used in the week during the day. Tridents and E400 are both very common on the 29.

It's been mostly single deckers recently.

One man's snide is another's irony.  Do you happen to know the prescription of Stevie Wonder's contact lenses?

As Tony says, visual impairment takes all sorts of forms.  Greater awareness of this does everyone a favour.  Awareness and patience.

Well "Stevie Wonder"  wouldn't have seen the branding either so that is irrelevant to the original point.

5515 is on there, or at least had been this morning. Not sure of its whereabouts since then.

Yeah ironically I saw one about 20 minutes of posting this, but this was a rarity today. Most days you don't see it. Sundays are well and good but what about during the week at busy times..