Chaserider

[ellspurs]

Cutting Essington is the most awful desicion ever

I would gather that most people that want the bus in Essington would just walk down to Ashmore Park and get one of the very frequent buses from there? 

This is another case of where services vastly differ between places that are close to each other just because of where the county border is, right?

[Westy]

I would gather that most people that want the bus in Essington would just walk down to Ashmore Park and get one of the very frequent buses from there?

This is another case of where services vastly differ between places that are close to each other just because of where the county border is, right?

How much of a walk is it?

If there was space for an access road, like there is at Perton, it would solve the problem!

[ellspurs]

How much of a walk is it?

If there was space for an access road, like there is at Perton, it would solve the problem!

If we go from what look like the closest bus stops, IE the 71 stop at Blackhalve Lane/New Street to the 59 stop at Griffiths Drive/Ferguson Street, Google is saying that it is 0.6 miles, or 11 minutes. There's a public footpath going past the rugby club. When I checked initially, I clicked up by where I've been in Essington, Bognop Road, which said it was about 20 minutes to a stop on Griffiths Drive. 

The current roads are navigable for buses, but if there was the call for buses up there then surely Chaserider wouldn't be cutting the service back, right? The main issue for NX sending a bus up there would be the lack of an area to turn around in, and looping around the most logical place would miss over half of the village out.

[ContainsNuts]

Cutting Essington is the most awful desicion ever

Read the timetables - Essington still has a service six days a week.

[Dennis Dart Plaxton Pointer]

Read the timetables - Essington still has a service six days a week.

Only from Wolves tho. Its not serving it one bit to wolves

[ellspurs]

They're actually reducing the frequency of the 25/26 to every 20 min on Saturdays, cutting out some of the buses at PM peak time and finishing it an hour early, from what I can make out of the timetables.

[Dennis Dart Plaxton Pointer]

They're actually reducing the frequency of the 25/26 to every 20 min on Saturdays, cutting out some of the buses at PM peak time and finishing it an hour early, from what I can make out of the timetables.

That's correct. From what a driver told me is the manager likes to mess around with routes & timetables and just axe them for no reason. The only reason why the 1 is coming back is because the managers wife is having a go at him because she keeps getting stranded on the A34 by Dog Tree because the buses keep getting filled with pushchairs so she's being stranded until there's a bus space for a push chair

[Dennis Dart Plaxton Pointer]

Another thing the driver said is the buses are in that bad of state only 748 and streetlite are the best buses in the fleet right now. All the volvos are going badly wrong now. Just kinda shows how bad a fleet is if drivers say streetlites are the best and they're ashamed of saying it

[Tony]

That's correct. From what a driver told me is the manager likes to mess around with routes & timetables and just axe them for no reason. The only reason why the 1 is coming back is because the managers wife is having a go at him because she keeps getting stranded on the A34 by Dog Tree because the buses keep getting filled with pushchairs so she's being stranded until there's a bus space for a push chair

I suspect this is not in the slightest true 

[Vulcan]

Certain that's not true 

[ContainsNuts]

That's correct. From what a driver told me is the manager likes to mess around with routes & timetables and just axe them for no reason. The only reason why the 1 is coming back is because the managers wife is having a go at him because she keeps getting stranded on the A34 by Dog Tree because the buses keep getting filled with pushchairs so she's being stranded until there's a bus space for a push chair

If a driver said it then it must be true 🙄

[Steveminor]

Bus driver told me the reason for the changes in timetables was it's a secret code to our alien overlords telling them when to attack 

[the trainbasher]

Bus driver told me the reason for the changes in timetables was it's a secret code to our alien overlords telling them when to attack 

Didn't you know? They want to destroy the UK for an intergalactic road

[Dennis Dart Plaxton Pointer]

New Chaserider route starting September 3rd will be routed as 'AV2' it'll cover cannock, burntwood, Brownhills and then Aston Villa FC on home match days

[Westy]

New Chaserider route starting September 3rd will be routed as 'AV2' it'll cover cannock, burntwood, Brownhills and then Aston Villa FC on home match days

Well I know one Villa fan in Great Wryley.

Whether he can make use of the service is another matter!