If you had the chance to modify or add any service, what would you do?

[Jack]

Overbused? If anything, it's underbused, if you get a service that serves Portland Road at peak times, there's a chance you'll be standing

Wasn't the 12/12A moved from Sandon Road to Portland Road to help the 13/13A?

[Sh4318]

Wasn't the 12/12A moved from Sandon Road to Portland Road to help the 13/13A?

Yeah, I still regularly see buses (albeit single deckers) full and standing at peak times on all four routes

[woody38]

If I could change any bus service, I would change the Whitmore Reans service in Wolverhampton.  Since NX came of the 5 the part of Whitmore Reans that the 5 route used to serve has hardly any buses even though it is an area buses should do well. I would reroute the 32 and 33 to serve Dunstall Road & Gorsebrook Road before rejoining there original route, don't thing this reroute would add hardly anything onto the running time of the service.

[OH25]

New Route Number: B2C
Express Bus Service to help the X1
Hourly Route

Route and Stops

Birmingham to Coventry:
Square Peg (terminus)
Moor Street Station
Birmingham Coach Station
      *non-stop*
Cargo Terminal
Falcon Way
Trinity Park
Birmingham Airport
Birmingham International Station
Arden Hotel
  *non-stop* (stay on the A45)
Parkhill Estate Terminus
  *non-stop* (back on the A45 Fletchamstead Highway then left onto Kenilworth Road)
Coventry P&R - War Memorial Park
Coventry Station - Warwick Road
Well Street
Pool Meadow Bus Station


Coventry to Birmingham
Pool Meadow Bus Station (terminus)
Cross Cheaping
Coventry Station - Warwick Road
Coventry P&R - War Memorial Park
  *non-stop* (right onto Fletchamstead Highway)
Parkhill Estate Terminus
  *non-stop* (stay on the A45)
Viking Road
Birmingham Airport
Birmingham International Station
Trinity Park
Falcon Way
Cargo Terminal
     *non-stop*
Birmingham Coach Station
Park Street (outside of Markets/Selfridges)
The Square Peg

[OH25]

60A to Airport
hourly extension to the 60 that continues to the airport from Cranes Park Road
(same route as A10 up to Coventry Road)
right Whitecroft Road
left Shepheard Road
right Olorenshaw Road
left Arden Oak Road
left Coventry Road
(same route and stops as X1 to the Airport)

60A from Airport
(same route and stops X1 to Arden Oak Road)
right Arden Oak Road
right Olorenshaw Road
left Shepheard Road
right Whitecroft Road
left Cranes Park Road
then current 60 route to Birmingham

[GoldenSquid]

New Route Number: B2C
Express Bus Service to help the X1
Hourly Route

Route and Stops
Parkhill Estate Terminus
  *non-stop* (back on the A45 Fletchamstead Highway then left onto Kenilworth Road)

Maybe skip Parkhill Estate and the stops after, and have it as a variable route between Airport and Pool Meadow to speed up journey times.

60A to Airport
hourly extension to the 60 that continues to the airport from Cranes Park Road
(same route as A10 up to Coventry Road)

Getting a double decker down there will be a challenge...

[jasmine]

New Route Number: B2C
Express Bus Service to help the X1
Hourly Route

Route and Stops

Birmingham to Coventry:
Square Peg (terminus)
Moor Street Station
Birmingham Coach Station
      *non-stop*
Cargo Terminal
Falcon Way
Trinity Park
Birmingham Airport
Birmingham International Station
Arden Hotel
  *non-stop* (stay on the A45)
Parkhill Estate Terminus
  *non-stop* (back on the A45 Fletchamstead Highway then left onto Kenilworth Road)
Coventry P&R - War Memorial Park
Coventry Station - Warwick Road
Well Street
Pool Meadow Bus Station


Coventry to Birmingham
Pool Meadow Bus Station (terminus)
Cross Cheaping
Coventry Station - Warwick Road
Coventry P&R - War Memorial Park
  *non-stop* (right onto Fletchamstead Highway)
Parkhill Estate Terminus
  *non-stop* (stay on the A45)
Viking Road
Birmingham Airport
Birmingham International Station
Trinity Park
Falcon Way
Cargo Terminal
    *non-stop*
Birmingham Coach Station
Park Street (outside of Markets/Selfridges)
The Square Peg

X1A is a better number

[jasmine]

60A to Airport
hourly extension to the 60 that continues to the airport from Cranes Park Road
(same route as A10 up to Coventry Road)
right Whitecroft Road
left Shepheard Road
right Olorenshaw Road
left Arden Oak Road
left Coventry Road
(same route and stops as X1 to the Airport)

60A from Airport
(same route and stops X1 to Arden Oak Road)
right Arden Oak Road
right Olorenshaw Road
left Shepheard Road
right Whitecroft Road
left Cranes Park Road
then current 60 route to Birmingham

Why would anyone take the 60A to the Airport when the X1 is literally 10 mins away from Cranes Park

[ellspurs]

Why would anyone take the 60A to the Airport when the X1 is literally 10 mins away from Cranes Park

That would also provide an airport service for Small Heath and anywhere the X1 just skips past.
Also, would you walk through Cranes Park with your suitcase and bags and that down to the Harvester to get the bus? It seems to be a nice alternative, if the demand is there for it.

[2206]

That would also provide an airport service for Small Heath and anywhere the X1 just skips past.
Also, would you walk through Cranes Park with your suitcase and bags and that down to the Harvester to get the bus? It seems to be a nice alternative, if the demand is there for it.

The 58 used to do that years ago, so maybe the demand isn't there from Small Heath.
From Small Heath you can alway get off the 60 at the Swan and get the next X1

[Jack]

The 58 used to do that years ago, so maybe the demand isn't there from Small Heath.
From Small Heath you can alway get off the 60 at the Swan and get the next X1

Didn't the 900 at one time serve Small Heath? Or was that the 58? I recall there being a 900A too?

[2206]

Didn't the 900 at one time serve Small Heath? Or was that the 58? I recall there being a 900A too?

As far as I know it was the 58, I think it was taken off around 2011 and the new 58 route via Lyndon to Solihull was created replacing the 42 route in that  area originally with Scanias.
There were some early morning 900a journeys via Small Heath as well before it became the X1.

There was also the 38 to the Airport via Acocks Green I think.

[monkeyjoe]

New Route Number: B2C
Express Bus Service to help the X1
Hourly Route

Route and Stops

Birmingham to Coventry:
Square Peg (terminus)
Moor Street Station
Birmingham Coach Station
      *non-stop*
Cargo Terminal
Falcon Way
Trinity Park
Birmingham Airport
Birmingham International Station
Arden Hotel
  *non-stop* (stay on the A45)
Parkhill Estate Terminus
  *non-stop* (back on the A45 Fletchamstead Highway then left onto Kenilworth Road)
Coventry P&R - War Memorial Park
Coventry Station - Warwick Road
Well Street
Pool Meadow Bus Station


Coventry to Birmingham
Pool Meadow Bus Station (terminus)
Cross Cheaping
Coventry Station - Warwick Road
Coventry P&R - War Memorial Park
  *non-stop* (right onto Fletchamstead Highway)
Parkhill Estate Terminus
  *non-stop* (stay on the A45)
Viking Road
Birmingham Airport
Birmingham International Station
Trinity Park
Falcon Way
Cargo Terminal
    *non-stop*
Birmingham Coach Station
Park Street (outside of Markets/Selfridges)
The Square Peg

Not sure I understand the logic , if honest 

[jasmine]

That would also provide an airport service for Small Heath and anywhere the X1 just skips past.
Also, would you walk through Cranes Park with your suitcase and bags and that down to the Harvester to get the bus? It seems to be a nice alternative, if the demand is there for it.

Get the 60 from Small Heath/Cranes Park to Swan Island and get the X1?

[Rachvince53]

Didn't the 900 at one time serve Small Heath? Or was that the 58? I recall there being a 900A too?

The 900 ran via Small Heath at peak times due to congestion on the A45 at that time of day, I believe they were also regularly diverted during Birmingham City home games too. The peak time journeys were indeed evntually numbered 900A.