Vehicle Transfers

[2206]

There isn't that many coming up in this round that NX would need stumpys for. SWB proved no different to LWB except they are smaller so can fit round tighter roads. Plus there isn't that many tenders in this round, a few of which NX already operate.

Whats up for tender in the April round?
Is the 36 - Sparkhill - Acocks Green - Heartlands Hospital up for tender?

[Dom]

Whats up for tender in the April round?
Is the 36 - Sparkhill - Acocks Green - Heartlands Hospital up for tender?

I'm not sure currently as I don't have my work paperwork with me. If I remember I'll have a look later.

[MW]

I'm not sure currently as I don't have my work paperwork with me. If I remember I'll have a look later.

Are you one of the Centro/TfWM guys who count people on buses?

[MasterPlan]

How are tenders won and lost?

[Dom]

How are tenders won and lost?

Operators bid for the contract, highest bidder wins.

[Dom]

Are you one of the Centro/TfWM guys who count people on buses?

We do more than just count people on buses ;) but yes I am.

[Straightlines]

Operators bid for the contract, highest bidder wins.

😂 If only!

[winston]

Operators bid for the contract, highest bidder wins.

Think you mean lowest bidder wins or best overall package

[MasterPlan]

Will the igo 39 be one of them?

[the trainbasher]

Whats up for tender in the April round?
Is the 36 - Sparkhill - Acocks Green - Heartlands Hospital up for tender?

I've sent a FOI Request off to TfWM so we as members of the public shall find out in the next 20 working days, but this is what a FOI in 2017 revealed...

T   100   13   Wednesbury to Dudley
T   217   27   Hawkesley to Kings Heath & Maypole via Northfield & Bourneville
T   316   42/43   Princes  End & Bilston/Tipton
T   405   56   City & Coleshill Road / Newport Road  and Kingshurst????
T   484   69   Brandwood Park and Shirley via Billesley
T   513   38   Northfield to Selly Oak via Cotteridge
T   592   27   Upper Gornal & Northway - I presume that this is just those two parts
T   601   2 & 3   Warstock / Yardley Wood & City Centre
T   665   36   Sparkbrook Mole St to Heartlands Hosp via Acocks Green
T   667   96 & 99   Lea Village & Lyndon via Acocks Green
T   667   96/99   Lea Village & Lyndon via Acocks Green
T   747   654A   Perry Barr One Stop to Hamstead Tanhouse Ave & Valley Rd
T   801   27   West Heath and Maypole
T   816   25   Wednesdfield to Three Tuns
T   820   47/47A   Hateley Heath to West Brom
T   828   25   Wolverhampton to Bilston
T   829   10   B'ham Colmore Row to Quinton Rd West via Croftdown Rd
T   839   89   Walsall to Wolverhampton
T   858   10H   Birmingham to Quinton
T   1127   2   Warstones & Wolverhampton via Penn Fields
T   1132   3   Castlecroft & Wolverhampton via Finchfield

[Dom]

Think you mean lowest bidder wins or best overall package

Aye that even. Cheers @Winston. I'm having a shocker tonight.

[Tony]

I wonder what route these shorties will go on at wn

They are for the 27

[Dom]

I've sent a FOI Request off to TfWM so we as members of the public shall find out in the next 20 working days, but this is what a FOI in 2017 revealed...

T   100   13   Wednesbury to Dudley
T   217   27   Hawkesley to Kings Heath & Maypole via Northfield & Bourneville
T   316   42/43   Princes  End & Bilston/Tipton
T   405   56   City & Coleshill Road / Newport Road  and Kingshurst????
T   484   69   Brandwood Park and Shirley via Billesley
T   513   38   Northfield to Selly Oak via Cotteridge
T   592   27   Upper Gornal & Northway - I presume that this is just those two parts
T   601   2 & 3   Warstock / Yardley Wood & City Centre
T   665   36   Sparkbrook Mole St to Heartlands Hosp via Acocks Green
T   667   96 & 99   Lea Village & Lyndon via Acocks Green
T   667   96/99   Lea Village & Lyndon via Acocks Green
T   747   654A   Perry Barr One Stop to Hamstead Tanhouse Ave & Valley Rd
T   801   27   West Heath and Maypole
T   816   25   Wednesdfield to Three Tuns
T   820   47/47A   Hateley Heath to West Brom
T   828   25   Wolverhampton to Bilston
T   829   10   B'ham Colmore Row to Quinton Rd West via Croftdown Rd
T   839   89   Walsall to Wolverhampton
T   858   10H   Birmingham to Quinton
T   1127   2   Warstones & Wolverhampton via Penn Fields
T   1132   3   Castlecroft & Wolverhampton via Finchfield

I don't get why a FOI is required if I'm honest. You'll find it out when they get awarded. Hardly an important matter.

[the trainbasher]

I don't get why a FOI is required if I'm honest. You'll find it out when they get awarded. Hardly an important matter.

Because as a taxpayer I feel it is my civic duty to hold officials who handle public money to account for what they are doing and if they are wasting it.

For example I, as a taxpayer, find it offensive that the combined authority are subsidising a bus service which is getting an average of more than 20 passengers a trip or less than 4 passengers a trip. In the case of the former it means that the service should be sustainable commercially and in the case of the latter, it means that it is hardly socially necessary.

Or white elephants like Sprint and trams to five ways, a waste of taxpayers cash.

[Dom]

Because as a taxpayer I feel it is my civic duty to hold officials who handle public money to account for what they are doing and if they are wasting it.

For example I, as a taxpayer, find it offensive that the combined authority are subsidising a bus service which is getting an average of more than 20 passengers a trip or less than 4 passengers a trip. In the case of the former it means that the service should be sustainable commercially and in the case of the latter, it means that it is hardly socially necessary.

You seem to fail to understand the work that goes into tenders, even before the bidding process opens. They do not only look at the number of passengers! They look at where these passengers are boarding and alighting. If that is all you have to worry about in your life, I wish I had it.