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It happens at every stop on every route. Queuing is a thing of the past it seems. It's the worst part of traveling by bus. Especially when a bus is missing or a bus is late.

When electric chargers are fitted at garages, how many are actually needed? Is it one per bus? So when YW had 20 delivered did they need 20 chargers installed? Same with CV and PB.

I don't have a problem with the grey livery, it's a good base for adding vinyls of any colour. It amazes me that you hear complaints about the 'It's Grey, so it must be awful' brigade but hardly any complaints (in comparison) about any of the liveries that had white as a base colour which let's face went grubby in no time at all.

The colour isn't the problem. The original platinum livery with its colour branded variants along with the first electrics and hydrogens are very smart.
But a grey version of the awful red and white layout just looks as uninspired.
There also late 80s grey Fleetline "we're just gonna paint around the adverts" vibes.
Understandably you can save a couple of quid per bus in not applying that bit of vinyl, but there seems to be quite a few buses without adverts at the moment and when they're not applied to the new grey livery, it just looks kinda cheap.

So no, it's not about complaining it's grey.

I've been reliably informed that E188 has had its vinyls applied today. Moreover, it also carries 'first responder' stickers (much like in London & Manchester) above the doors; I presume this'll be the standard on all EVs from here on.

Oh, so that's what the symbols are for! I'd seen them in London for a while, I'd just assumed it was for garage staff to easily identify which kind of bus/fuel type.

What does "mentally taxing the pits" supposed to mean?

There's punctuation missing.

Driving safely and competently is highly commended.

"if i'm not in mood i drive slower sod the timetable" That, however is a disgusting attitude.

Didn't they have undercover police on the buses in the past to stop assault and this sort of stuff from happening?

You can't have an undercover officer traveling around every bus all day, every day just in case someone sets fire to it.

I'm just amazed that anyone can edit anything on site.

The whole thing is just one giant white elephant. They should seriously look into abandoning it completely. It's an embarrassment.

At least it seems now the demolition of Saltley Viaduct will take place after the new viaduct has opened. That would have been a nightmare. It was awful whilst it was closed for 9 months this year.

Sorry to any folks who use Washwood Heath Road bus services, but expect some major disruption while these works are carried out.


It will be interesting to see if these bus lanes will actually be enforced though, or if they even make a difference.

I'm not too worried. You can't get much more disrupted than the current 4 buses at a time and a half hour wait for the next.

I really look forward to the day my five minute frequency bus routes is a five minute frequency. I just hope whilst being installed, the services don't get even worse than they are now.

the three zenobe spares currently in use at yw are now in the new standard grey/red stripe livery now

Have they just had a red stripe added to their all over dark grey, or have they had the fronts painted light grey too?

Hydrogens on the 51 continue to be a rare sight.

they still look and feel the same to the average passenger

That doesn't come into it. They're totally different vehicles. A Volvo isn't a Dennis and a Dennis isn't a Volvo. However a Versa is a Versa is a Versa.