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How would you do that ?
How would the Scott Arms be served ?
What about Losells and City ?
Their frequencies don't match either

I have no idea re. your 4 questions.
My comment started,  "Ok, based on people suggesting to the NX experts how to run their buses."   Intended to come across as a facetious comment, as I am sure that NX experts know far more than most who comment here.

Again, see my comment before about it needing to be a single deck operated route.

Ok, based on people suggesting to the NX experts how to run their buses. I have looked at the TfWM Birmingham area map and the NX route map for the 52, in conjunction with Google maps!  Why not merge the 52 with the single deck 28? 

I was under the impression that Birmingham City Council wanted the land so they could develop it into more new homes as part of the wider Perry Barr 'masterplan'. I seem to recall some figure of £12m being quoted that was paid to National Express so they could build the new facility on Aston Lane.

So much for a Commonwealth Games 'legacy'!

Sold for £2.1m on 28/01/2020 according to Land Registry. Presumably TfWM/WMCA will now have their eyes on it, in preparation for franchising.

Not really, that's the spec for the 'new' Enviro400EV, not the same as the BYD versions that NX have.

And the 'new' E400EV has rear facing seats over the rear wheels in the lowers saloon, to be used as foot rests. The BYD version has an improved seating layout, having removed the anti social option of using seats as foot rests, with all forward facing seats.

The X3/X4/X5 etc stop at PQ11 on inbound journeys to unload, hardly the "edge of the city centre".

It's certainly not as convenient as MS13 & PQ3.

Found the link now
BBC News - Free bus scheme is good value for money - West Midlands mayor - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0kvglep72vo

£1m for approx. 25 hours of free travel to a limited number of passengers without travel cards, day tickets or concessionary passes does not sound like good value for money to me.

PQ11 and CS1 are probably the permanent stops now.

I don't see why services from the South West of Birmingham (23 & 24) use PQ3 when services from the North East of Birmingham (X3,X4,X5 etc.) can only just reach the edge of the city centre (CS1). I suppose it is better than the Colmore Circus terminus (102,103,104).

When will the X3, X4, X5, X14 & X15 revert back to their original stop PQ3 from the temporary stop CS1?

Can't find it on Google but I'm sure I saw somewhere the weeks free travel cost Mr Parker £1m and 250,000 passengers took part?
If so that's £4 each by my reckoning?

More than £4 each.  A proportion of people travelling after 7pm will already have paid for travel cards, day tickets or have concessionary passes.  

Has the depot been fitted out with the necessary charging equipment ?

I've no idea. But as Arriva has won Zebra funding for battery buses for the 110 at Tamworth, in partnership with Staffs CC, one would think that charging equipment will be necessary at Tamworth garage.

When will he battery buses be coming to Tamworth for the 110?

Are the new electric buses air conditioned? The air coming out of the vents of the upper deck of E172 is fairly cool.

The X2 doesn't terminate the other side of the City at all, it's an 8 minute walk along one road. It's not like ones on Moor Street and the other at Colmore Row.

It doesn't take long at all on the bus, the 4 and X2 take similar amount of time. The X2 has loads of bus priority along the route. How are you trying to get an express bus along Stratford and Warwick Road when the current services get stuck in that traffic, and you can't just flyover it.

A lot of passengers in AG if they want to be in town within 15 minutes catch the train which is very popular.

OK, having looked at a map the stops are closer than I implied.  I always alight on Priory and board on Corporation St.

I agree with you that it is not feasible to travel from Solihull & Acocks Green to Birmingham by bus due to the slow journey times, and train is more practical.  However when Solihull and Sutton Coldfield are both almost the same distance from Birmingham, and it is almost half an hour on X3/X4/X5 to travel between Birmingham & Sutton, where as it is almost an hour on the X2/4 to travel between Birmingham & Solihull then if anything can be done to reduce journey times and increase patronage, this can only benefit both the operator and the passenger.

Maybe because the 907 isn't an express service... it's limited stop and the 9** is for limited stop services. The X3's etc have more of an express feel using the Expressway whereas the 907 serves stops inbetween Perry Barr and the City, so has less of an express feel just limited stops, whereas the X51 is non-stop until the City

More pointless renumbering, don't mess with something that already works fine. Having two X2's in the City Centre by the same operator is bound to cause loads of unnecessary confusion.

So the X8, X10, X21, X22 & X64 are "Express" services as opposed to "Limited Stop" services? 

The Solihull X2 departs from the opposite side of the city centre to the Sutton routes, so no reason to cause confusion.  It is more confusing to have short running services not suffixed with an E.

Regarding the Solihull Services, it takes far too long to get from Birmingham to Solihull by bus, the 4 (formerly 37) could do with having some "express" services from Digbeth Coach station to Acocks Green.  Another X4! 

Could renumber the 907 to X7 as well.

Yes, it's bizarre that every NX Sutton to Birmingham route number was changed to X_ except for the 107/907.