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I will ask Engineering to pick this up.  Thank you

With the new tenders, r u up or down on the number of buses u need

There is a lot happening from on 05/01/25.  There are revisions to lots of services.  Overall, after all these changes over all 3 garages we will be +4.   


Simon

I caught 32260 on the 15C today and on Monday.
Both days the front blind wasn't working and was blank (the nearside one was working though).

I will pick this up with the depot

32336 is running about on the 40 with none of the displays working, can this be looked at when it returns to garage?

Thank you - I will get this looked at

SN68AHB isn't tracking tonight on the 42

We have swapped the Ticket Machine out - thank you

Hi Simon,

I am local to Preston and Deepdale Road currently hosts 40030 and 40515-517, as well as the older Omnidekkas 40406 and 40407.

I chanced upon some information regarding a recent purchase of two Scania N230UD OmniCity deckers from Belle Vue. This got me wondering where the future 40031 and 40032 might be allocated to, considering Preston are currently the only Rotala operation other than Burton to have a considerable number of Scanias on strength.

Many thanks

Dear Preston OmniCity,

There are no planned changes with these vehicles at this time.



Simon

True.

It appears 2 more minibuses have landed at Burton:
15017 - WN74 YFO
15018 - WN74 YFM

Looks like these will now run on the 22 & 24 and maybe a spare. Hopefully this frees up something for painting.

These two were originally tagged for the Lichfield DRT.  This starts early December.  Whichever 2 vehicles are used will be in a DRT livery.

Re 8 15A/C services.
Would it not make sense for Worcestershire Council to install proper bus stops in the Kidderminster area. A couple of locations where buses currently stop with no physical stop flag come to mind 8 Rifle Range terminus, 15A Silverwoods Way just after the Larchwood Pub and there's some new housing development at the bottom of the Chester Road South as well.

Where there are  shelters in place in the Kidderminster area some of them loook more like shells or wrecks than bus stops. With out of date service numbers (First route 1) on the flags, or no service information at bus stops.

Also the 8 seems to have a reliability problem.

We have been discussing this point with WCC for a while.  We have offered to take over the bus stop maintenance, but this offer has been declined.  The ownership of the stops is unknown.  Some are owned by WCC and some are owned by District Councils.  Either way, it is frustrating.   

In terms of the 8 - as you know the whole area and Bewdley is affected because of ongoing roadworks.  We have put additional resource in and the depot monitor all the routes during the day and try to manage reliability.  It is going to be a problem until these major works come to an end.

Question for both @Simon Dunn & @Tony.

What are your companies respective stances on X / Twitter, considering there is an alleged mass exodus elsewhere to the likes of BlueSky, due to the ownership of X?

I know Nx has a Threads account, dont know about Diamond though.

We don't have a position.   We have social media accounts, more for PR and updates.

Hi Simon any sign of the Aussies entering service yet

As the buses are the first Built by Custom Denning they need to go through whole type approval.  They passed this months ago.  The next stage was for the DVLA to issue paperwork to allow them to be registered.  We have waited months for this, and it came through this week.

They now need to be presented to a certifying officer.  We have applied and are waiting a slot for all 4 vehicles.

15009. The screen displays the destination then changes to another display just with the letter X

We had some earlier problems which I understand have now been resolved.

Hi Simon,

Apologies for being another one about destination blinds but Burton's 15014 was on the 70/70A today with no destination showing.

Thanks

I am advised this has been resolved.  

Hiya simon,

Sorry to keep asking you about destinations, but on multiple streetdecks they seem to not be able to have 247 dests on the front. Vehicles: 40725, 40842 and 40827 ive seen with this problem and it seems to only affect them with 247 dests. Causes confusion when you have 247S and 247 both stopping same place same time.

Thanks.

Sorry - I will get this checked tonight

30926 the electric screen by the seats is stating that a Regional NBus is £4.50.  I thought that they were £4.80

Sorry for the delay - I will get this checked.

Hi Simon 21235 isn't displaying it's front Route Number so it just says Wednesbury Via Darlaston on the Front Destination Board

Just picked this up.  I will get the bus checked.


Simon