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Just a peak board (X51/08 I think - only one working on it). Was late though, and proceeded by what appeared to be an empty Gemini

Are they taking the piss with the 336/337 routes at the moment? Because there's mentions twice now of deckers on them in the past month.

Also, 1899 made a peak trip on the X51 this evening, that was fun (to be read sarcastically)

Just wondering about the next stop announcements. If they get fitted to old buses (which someone has said on here is a possibility) - could the be heard? Just going on how loud a merc can get sometimes

Apologies for keeping "off topic" (before I get slated for doing so - it's just where the conversation is heading at the moment)...

A case point about some buses being faster / not being faster than others:
On me way home from work on Friday I caught 4309 (Trident) on the X51 from town at about 6pm. It was full to the brim, so had a good few extra tonnes of weight to move. Pulling away from the Bartons Arms lights in Newtown it managed to outpace a fairly empty Gemini.
Not trying to say "I know these buses are faster than others", just stating what happened.

Omnicity on the 33
Enviro on the 907

805 being hooked up to a Mansfield truck outside the Square Peg at lunchtime today

Centro were on Radio WM this morning, Adrian Goldberg Show, saying how bus journey's were down in the West Midlands last year compared with the year before, 4 million less journeys made. Adrian opened the phone lines up and we had the usual bus bashing exercise.

Of interest, one caller was asking why the 97 had been extended to the airport when there was already the 900 that serves the Airport from the city centre, also why a half hourly Night Bus services had been introduced. He wanted to know why Centro had funded this service, a question which Adrian didn't know the answer to. He said he would investigate it.

Why are some people never happy, surely a better connection to the Airport from other parts of the city can only be applauded, and as i understand the airport is subsidising the night service, so where is the problem?

Herein lies the problem with society. People complain for any reason, and in trying to get their point across they make up / assume "facts" that sound plausible... I seriously hope they did some research after the call and mentioned on air the actual facts that it isn't Centro funded

Success! Cheers guys, its only because I was in town 10 mins earlier than usual this morning that I saw it then, might have to go even earlier now just to see it properly

Caught two glimpses of a bus this morning, and I'm intrigued as to what bus / company it was. It was orange, didn't appear to have any logos on it and looked suspiciously like an Excel, saw it going round Lancaster Circus towards Snow Hill, then again going round Old Square and down Priory Queensway. Both times it was just a fleeting glimpse and was just too far away / at the wrong angle to see a number on the front

Every night this week up to and including Saturday part of Great Charles Street Queensway is closed for resurfacing meaning all services using it (9, 141, 22/23/24, etc...) are being diverted down a ridiculous series of side roads taking about 3 minutes. Most of these narrow side roads would otherwise never see a bus service! Normal way out of Birmingham though

Very tempting to travel on an evening just to experience it

Straftanz

And in answer to the inevitable question... "German industrial/electro"

Well said, trams for tram lines and trains for previous train routes.
Our trams should be trams with on road running. not dissused railtrack.

Ok, the plan for Walsall - Wolverhampton is along an old rail route, are you saying that trains should be reinstated along that route despite whichever company is currently responsible for putting a train service on the already existing route between the two failing miserably at doing so?

Just from travelling on them really, usually if im on a new route I follow where im going on Network West Midlands maps. Generally over time I've come to remember most routes

Two on Priory Queensway this afternoon, only form of identification I could make out from a jolty bus ride was one of them eating a baguette

Omnilink on the 67

Its 1836. How unusual is this?

Thinking about it, perhaps not all that unusual to see one, but it did look strange