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I am aware of an incident reported by the driver which required a diversion.
The diversion route was set up by myself to cover as many stops as possible and as has been pointed out would give driver visibility over some stops he couldn't serve to look for intending passengers.
I am not sure as to why bus times does not show the vehicle serving Stockfield rd as I have checked the vehicle traffilog tracker which shows the vehicle travelling along Stockfield rd. A possibility is that the ticketer goes went dead for a short period of time so I have no tracker off the etm for that time period, bustimes.org takes its feed from our etm so would not have tracked the bus live at that time either so may have just joined the dots from the data it did recieve

The change is happening was confirmed during an omnibus society audience with David Bradford yesterday

Due to leave next Wednesday although currently not in use.

We have had to run some journeys short to fox & goose to try & get vehicles back on time & keep drivers with rta. It's been a nightmare couple of days with a couple of our drivers finishing 2 hours late yesterday even though they had just been adjusted prior to their last departure from City.
Made even worse tonight with severe congestion around the Bromford spine road meaning even dead running buses couldn't make it back to city

Regarding service 424. Since covid tfwm have been extending tfwm have been extending contracts to provide continuity & a stable bus network for passengers, however Birmingham becoming a clean air zone puts a spanner in the works as it is a euro5 contract & would be economical to convert buses or procure euro 6 buses for such a short extension. Therefore with very few passengers travelling on the section from bevington rd to city centre this section has been removed. The Broadway section Diamond bus have kindly agreed to cover with the 68 & the 424 will continue to operate between Perry barr and queslett. Times for both ourselves & Diamond have been kept as similar as possible to provide some stability for passengers.

In light of the current uncertainty for the industry during this time we will be returning bus NYZ off lease.

We look for commercial opportunities in the future but like all operators at present we await further guidance from the dft as to the continuation or planned future of the CBSSG scheme.

As for the suggestion of running 75 hourly, its currently tendered to run at its current frequency so unless more money becomes available (highly unlikely) it will remain at this frequency until at least the end of the contract

I believe the route came about in retaliation for Arriva move against them on the 530 or 535 cant remember which one. Arriva then pulled off Bangas route however since the 891 was doing well financially Banga kept the 891 going until eventually arriva withdrew their service.

Pat all the machines are owned by the operators. Tfwm manage the back office under the managed service scheme which is chargeable

The devil will most certainly be in the detail.
Interestingly the document does not mention QP only EP & franchising

Yes you were stu.
For anyone that may think differently regarding the placing of the route number I draw your attention to the earlier observation of where nx Coventry place their route numbers. A company like national express are hardly likely to breach PSVAR

8.1 a, refers to front blind.
8.1 b, refers to the side blind

The suspended service as of last friday

We used that rd once to get a bus unstuck after an rtc on Washwood heath rd. Wont do it again

I believe RK have suspended their service during lockdown

Really!! Decker was out yesterday

The 192Y only came to Your Bus after the takeover