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Jubilee Drive is closed so 30813 is using Spring Grove Road instead. 
Service 1 is operating with delays due to congestion. 

Hopefully it'll be in addition to the current 74/85. Ansty's current bus services are rather poor to say the least. When the new head office for Frasers Group gets built the area may need some more services anyway.

There are certainly some big gaps in the schedule where you could slot some 85s in.

Though I did also wonder if this is a way of operating the service & continuing to use E200s on it as it doesn't cross into the Coventry boundary?

This Will be Run by Nuneaton Depot

Guessing this will fit in with the 85 no longer being a NXC route somehow, as parts of the route are similar Brinklow/Monks Kirby-Rugby.

https://bustimes.org/services/84-nuneaton-bus-station-c3-bilton-bilton-high-scho?date=2025-07-28&service=80727%3A84#map

31422 is on the 192 today with front and side blinds not working.

21204 front blind hasn't been working for weeks as well actually.
One day I saw someone let it go past them as they couldn't tell what bus it was.

Caught 7502 from fox and goose to the swan island/Broadyates Road stop earlier.
11A/11C, A9 were diverting Hob Moor Road, Holder Road, Coventry Road.

Why would the 97A go? That service is going extremely well. The 17A could do another way, it's a single decker route anyways due to green lane

Just because it'd mean 6bph to Chelmsley which I think is more than that has ever had?

It's single deck because of the radleys bridge not Green Lane. BC still run an 891 school down Green Lane in the morning.

It's going into Chelmsley wood, the 17 itself is terminating at Chelmsley wood, the 17A will carry on from there. Most likley either a new way or just the casual 96 way

What way is the 17 going to Chelmsley Moorend Avenue, Bosworth Drive like the old 71 used to, or Chapelhouse Road?

Wonder if the 97A is staying and it's an addition? Or if this is a way of improving the current route to serve more workers at the airport, if so overnight journeys on the 17 would be interesting?
Either way I guess it is subsidised by the Airport?

I wonder has a 'circular' service ever been thought of for the 82 where it would do its current route to Bearwood then just turn left from Bearwood and head up Hagley Road back to the City centre

Probably more than enough 9, X8, X10 & 126's already so no need to send even more buses that way.

Also the way it has worked for a long time is the 87 changes into a 82 at City as the WB relief point is in Oldbury

TfWM's latest registrations is saying the Tile Cross 17 service will extend to Chelmsley Wood and new variant 17A goes to Birmingham Airport.

Is that in addition to the 97A etc?
Didnt expect a 5th service to go to the Airport?

The Airparks bus service goes to Tile Cross area too I think, wonder if there's a way it could be merged so people travelling there use the 17A to increase passenger usage?

@Mkinson2224 clearly this is a 'recycled' Ticketer unit from a former vehicle that has not been correctly updated.

Might actually be 31420. Which stopped tracking at 14:05.
Guessing it had its machine swapped?

So when is the 27 being extended to Solihull (taking over the 169)?

20th July.
Wonder when the Rugby tenders will be ending/20B changing though. As that will free 9 E200 for transfer eventually? Possibly some for YW?

14 diverting Washwood Heath Road, Highfield Road tonight due to a police cordon on Alum Rock Road.

agreed, but delays on the 14 for example would never really be fixed then. its either extreme overtiming, major delays at times or alum rock rd having no route.

The only alternative I can think of that could maybe be done is having a short route terminating at Stechford or Ward End.

And then a longer route via Tile Cross either going via Washwood Heath Road with the 94/95 or taking Bordesley Green with the 97.

unless its so major that big roads like Alum Rock Road arent served to increase punctuality for example

which is probably why routes are often changed good example is the acocks green 1

The core of that route Acocks Green to Five Ways has remained mostly unchanged for decades. I think over 100 years old that route is?

Alum Rock Road, yes the parking and traffic are terrible along there especially on the section from Highfield Rd to Saltley Gate. But a lot of those stops between the Pelham and Saltley Gate are very well used & I don't think there is really an ideal alternate route.

Anyway I guess with a lot of changes there will be winners as well as losers, as 13A passengers in Brandhall, Blackheath will be going from 2bph to 3bph to Birmingham it appears.

Any particular reason WA doesn't drive Tridents on Sundays?

It makes sense to use newer more fuel efficient vehicles on a Sunday when the PVR is lower.