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With coventry requiring all buses that run into the city to be zero emission by the end of the year will the x6 still use single deckers when there's no coaches available or will they use double deckers 

E023 seems to have gone on a trip to Luton 😂

E35 no visual display on top deck audio works fine

Top deck visual display is now working as of 11:05 of today's date

No audio announcements working as of 11:31

Simon Dunn has mentioned elsewhere here that he was approached by the WMCA with a view to acquiring the Tividale site, but told them that he had no interest in doing so.

It will probably mean that TfWM will have to make him an offer he can't refuse, which results in the WMCA paying over the odds, meaning the franchising set-up costs end up being more than was originally projected.

Could WMCA not use a compulsionary purchase order to force him to sell?

There will be, even the franchising document predicts the WM bus market total Pvr will shrink further even under franchising.

The report says that coventry will have a total  PVR of 146 buses i believe that nx coventry alone has more then that amount at about 176ish buses

It seems the 5/5A are being cancelled and replaced by the 7 and a new 7A route 
With stand changes for the above mentioned services

https://www.tfwm.org.uk/who-we-are/what-we-do/bus-services/bus-service-registrations-within-the-west-midlands/

E96 has been hit by a car at the crossing in tile hill 

From 23 February 2025 I see the NXC 11 will no longer call at the relatively new and purpose built rail station interchange. I reckon only NXC X30 and SC X17 will serve from then? The interchange is turning out to be a disaster. IMO it is badly sited for rail passengers. Unless there are some exciting new plans for the interchange it seems to becoming a waste of money (council???)?

Yet as Justin Tyme stated (2021) - not so long ago buses use to call right outside the station front - yet now taxis pick up from the station front instead.

Progress eh?

Could it be used for CVLR instead 

Looking the TFWM website it seems the 188 maybe going back to the original route from the 23rd of this month 

E140 NSA stuck in a boot loop 

That doesn't count the X6 does it?

Isn't the x6 excluded as it's normally ran by a coach?

E130 has a crack in the windscreen 

Definitely a better choice, hope it reappears on future EVs

IMO should have been on all the buses looks smarter then price branding 

Could nx not permanently change the 14 or 14A route to serve Banner Lane, Tile Hill Lane, Templar
Avenue, Torrington Avenue, Station Avenue to normal line of route although it may add a few extra minutes to the route 

40 seems a small number for Coventry to me? Doesn't NXC have a few more than that?
If it is just 40 then just maybe they are looking at what was the new depot built by TDC (now a truck base) just before they stopped running?

The report says Coventry will have a PVR of 164 buses

I believe this will be a new depot for "smaller routes" to be used along side ford street depot that would be for "bigger routes"


Tbf it's all confusing