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Could you point me towards the section in the franchising documents where I can see this please?

It's on page 276

More likely the WMCA will want to acquire the current Aston Lane site.

Will be interesting to see how much they're prepared to pay for it, considering the £15.5m cost to build it, according to this old BBC News article:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-50976194

WMCA must have read the same article :) £15m is the assumed acquisition cost in their franchising document

They reckon £4.4 million each for Park Lane and Acocks Green

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@Tony The new picture of 119L comes up sayin May be an Image 1 person, ambulance and text with the jigsaw piece

If that's the best guess AI can come up with, I feel we've been sold a pup

I see not one comment from any of these cretins in power highlighting how worsening traffic congestion over recent years has made running bus services efficiently near on impossible. 

Absolutely. A point I made in my survey response,  together with bus lane enforcement. I hope my input counts for more than the likes of inaccurate rants about no multi-operator tickets. But I'm not confident.

It seems TFWM plan to spend £6.5 million pound on building a new Coventry bus depot

Site will be brought in 2025/26 to be open in 2027/28 with a PVR of 40


Going to be interesting to see where it will be

I read it that the smaller additional Coventry depot would be opened if there was a "Future Partnership" approach (see also the mysterious Pear Tree in Dudley) rather than under the more likely/dead cert "Franchising" approach

I could be wrong, it's a drawback of publishing such a huge and probably expensive document

Reading the article in the February 2025 issue of Buses Magazine, something that jumped out at me was YMCA is stating 2039 for full zero emission operation - am I missing something here - I thought NXWM had given an undertaking to be 100% zero emission by 2030 - so why the extra 9 years?

As per my post #134 in this thread, see section 3.5.1 on page 227 of the franchising report. I an wary of posting the text on here because there could be two sides to the story.

Don't worry, we've had the same problems with the 169 in Birmingham for the last year or so, which also struggles to keep to time - not through any fault of the drivers, but simply becoming delayed due to traffic issues notably in Solihull town centre, Shirley and Kings Heath.

Co-incidentally I have used this service a few times recently, I came to terms with it being around 20 minutes late at school & college kicking out time. 

All journeys had a handful of passengers, I would imagine those who do not have access to mobile real time information may have given up.

The additional zebra funding for 130 (30 for sprint) buses that were supposed to be hydrogen bus but I think might have changed

Based on the January 2023 NX announcement of 300, 130 are outstanding in addition to the 124 ZEBRA vehicles. Things may have changed. Graphs in the franchising document show NX are expected to have 600 Zero Emission buses in service in 2027. 

Out of interest, the ZEBRA funding was awarded nearly three years ago. Is there a deadline for delivery or risk of withdrawal?

Why get rid of hydrogen buses. 

Given the lease arrangements this certainly seems unlikely. Incidentally these arrangements are detailed in the franchising document should anyone be interested.

Better still, and now this is fantasy, bring back the termini in All Saints Road to allow use of Abbots Road again. Used for decades for the likes of the 2 and 27 back in the days when parked cars were fewer and crucially narrower...and the residents didn't object to buses.

. There's very much an anti NX tone to some of it. 

Especially section 3.51 on page 227. 2030 never struck me as realistic in the first place.

Strange that a second BC replacement site isn't in the proposal. Bristol Road, Pershore Road, Harborne and Uni corridors would all require a new base, and a possible replacement for YW would need to be substantial to accommodate current routes plus the BC South West Birmingham routes.

It does mention site(s) plural for BC

The consultation is live. I have had my say - the confirmation email went to my spam folder.

https://www.tfwm.org.uk/consultations/bus-reform/

If the new WM Bus Network will only require 1177 vehicles, everyone best be prepared for large scale service cuts.

NX's fleet alone is currently circa 1420, Rotala circa 170 in WM + the other independents.

Having searched the document I found reference to 1177 on page 281 but the figures don't match the graph they are trying to explain, it looks like c.1,500 in 2029 falling to 1,177 by 2041.

- something out there fully YW to take spare e200s from walsall (when they loose 77/A/X15) and to use them on the 27

I was thinking if larger vehicles than E200s were needed - and there are schools on the route - the Omnilinks on the 27 might be replaced by a few B7RLEs from Coventry once they are replaced by electrics. AG runs them should short-term loans be needed.