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Who comes up with this poor choice of routing into Coventry?
- Why Tanners Lane instead of Duggins Lane which is more residential and has physical bus stops in situ.
- Part of Torrington Avenue is missed out, goes via Tile Hill Lane instead which already has 5 buses per hour, a bitter pill if it's just an attempt of a saving time just for the bus to....
- Go via Earlsdon which fair enough I agree with as it doubles the daytime frequency here with service 51.

I would say it's to avoid the trek down to Sir Henry Parkes Avenue roundabout to turn around - the old 192/194 services used to come down Eastcotes/Westcotes from Tile Hill Lane one-way, but I don't think those roads are bus suitable any more.

The 194 used to go up Duggins Lane but if Tanners Lane is used then the bus hits that chunk of housing by the crossroads.

Some things seem to be convoluted.

The 188 route has somewhat been released

https://eu.remix.com/project/b977dc28?latlng=52.40404,-1.77506,12.146


How long before its rerouted down tile hill lane and hersall common

Given that it is taking over the 2 route that goes down Torrington Lane, hopefully not.

Also wow, it is actually going through Berkswell village and Carol Green. They've not had a regular bus service in ages.

Also did the 82 used to go to Parkhill Estate?

If there getting rid of the 'A' routes what happens to the A9?

They are just renumbering them? Same with the a10 when they get around to it.

Does anyone know how the 54 (Hamstead Village to Perry Barr) will work now? it says it will serve scott arms and then go to perry barr, but it already terminates at perry barr on the other end? so is it just a circular now? and if it isnt, why not? it basically already is because scott arms and hamstead village by proxy is really not far from perry barr at all. also will it serve scott arms how the old 46 did (via old walsall road) or will it follow the 16 route (via hamstead road and newton road) into scott arms?

it's just extremely unclear how the 54 will work once it reaches Hamstead Village now, and all plausible ways just seem stupid. if the route were to serve scott arms (we don't even know HOW it will serve it once it hits hamstead village) and then go to perry barr, as the changelog says, it's essentially a circular route, but they've not called it as such at all.

It'll probably just extend via the old 61 route to Great Barr from Hamstead Village, running Great Barr to Perry Barr via Hamstead Village. The notes on the 61 say it's withdrawn from this section and it offers the 54 as an alternative service.

Looks stagecoach have a new 188 service from Coventry to solihull via Balsall Common and Torrington Avenue

It says on the page that it is an extension of their 88 Solihull to Balsall Common service via aspects of the old 2/2a route.

I wonder if they'll send it up Lavender Hall Lane and through Berkswell and Carol Green to get to Eastern Green/Tile Hill. They've not had a normal bus service up there in a long while.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c86qy500545o

More info about moneys being distributed across the country for bus networks.

It's Midland Metro, look how long it took them to do the Wolverhampton extension. Give them another 5 years - HS2 might be done before them.

(The website doesn't have an ETA)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce8ygjp744lo

Bus fell into a ditch in Leverington, Cambridgeshire yesterday evening. I'm around that area every Thursday (didn't need to come to Leverington this week) but I think this may be a GRS bus, who have a number of ex-NX buses on their fleet.

The roads are terrible around here.

I think you mean more competition to reduce tender prices to save them money.
TfWM subsidise bus operators to run the tendered services.

That... makes more sense.

I think Mobico may need to start thinking about how much they can get for their depots and probably winding down the NX bus company, as it's pretty clear that the mayor doesn't want them around.

(Also it seems a bit strange that the person reporting on all this has the last name of "Thandi"?)

Mr Parker is disappointed that he can't make more money out of the Tender processes (there was an article on Birmingham Mail saying this but I cannot find it). He wants more companies involved in the Tender process to push up the prices of the tenders so they get more money.

The grey is a nod to the brutalist 60s architecture that used to make up a lot of Birmingham's skyline.

Mr Mayor is just waiting for the chance to reveal his bull livery, y'know as the Manchester ones have bees all over them...

I guess these people haven't been around Oxford in the last year or so, if they want to complain about the state of the liveries on the buses.

Per Route-One, First are to become a Flixbus Partner at the start of 2025, with buses mainly operating from the south-west depots (and Yorkshire).