Service changes 1st September 2019

[monkeyjoe]

You're probably right about passenger numbers at certain times. Passenger travelling patterns have changed radically, I remember when I was growing up in the 1970's and 1980's that there used to be a big increase in passenger numbers in peaks on Monday to Friday, a good example was the 33 which increased from around every 10 minutes in the main daytime, but increased to round every 5 minutes in peak hours, now it runs every 10 minutes all day. Workers hours have changed completely over the years. On Saturday's some routes used to be more frequent, again using the 33 as an example was every 7-8 minutes compared to every 10 minutes on Monday to Friday now the Saturday frequency is the same as Monday to Friday (every 10 minutes), now some routes are LESS frequent on Saturday's than Monday to Friday examples being Birmingham services 4, 4A and 6.

I would also say that lack of increases in frequency in peak times we are seeing is also partly dude to increased running times due to traffic etc.