Acocks Green Garage

[AGPlaysMC]

4494 - 4

Saw that yesterday when I was on the 60 into town

[cris 99]

Well shocked to see the 41/46 58 will be operated by Stagecoach from january be weird seeing Stagecoach in Northfield and Yardley

[Stu]

Well shocked to see the 41/46 58 will be operated by Stagecoach from january be weird seeing Stagecoach in Northfield and Yardley

The one positive to take away from this is that with AG losing these tendered services, it frees up drivers and vehicles for their other 'core' routes, which should help alleviate where journeys are being missed out due to lack of drivers.

[Stu]

I have spilt off a number of replies into another topic, please use that one for further discussion of Stagecoach's new undertakings:
https://wmbusphotos.com/forum/index.php?topic=6362.0

[BBS]

Are there any plans for the outer circle to be reconnected again? 

[Jack]

Are there any plans for the outer circle to be reconnected again?

Hope not. The current form works a lot better.

[BBS]

Hope not. The current form works a lot better.

It's quite a pain to wait at Acocks Green for a specific 11A or 11C to come though 

[Stu]

It's quite a pain to wait at Acocks Green for a specific 11A or 11C to come though

Only if there are delays en-route. I don't do the journey very often, but I think the longest I had to wait while changing at Acocks Green village was about ten minutes.

[2206]

Only if there are delays en-route. I don't do the journey very often, but I think the longest I had to wait while changing at Acocks Green village was about ten minutes.

Delays on that route quite often I think.
Earlier this week vehicles were coming in half hour + late and nothing for ages then several together. Apparently delayed in the Selly Oak area at Aston Webb and in Kings Heath.
I wonder if they will curtail the Western Half back to Perry Barr one stop at some point and have it serve the station there like the other half does.

[Stu]

Delays on that route quite often I think.
Earlier this week vehicles were coming in half hour + late and nothing for ages then several together. Apparently delayed in the Selly Oak area at Aston Webb and in Kings Heath.

I wonder if they will curtail the Western Half back to Perry Barr one stop at some point.

Yes, you get delays in Selly Oak and Kings Heath all the time due to queuing traffic. I travelled to Bearwood today, and we got held up by temporary traffic lights at Pineapple Bridge as well as on Pershore Road before Cotteridge.

[Stu]

Hope not. The current form works a lot better.

I'm not sure about that, you still have vehicles running in tandem and huge gaps in service at times. I'm not sure how well the 'eastern' side operates (from Acocks Green to Perry Barr) as I only ever see or use the 'western' side (from Acocks Green to Erdington).

[Mike K]

Observation only as I don't use the 11, but buses still seem to run in groups now similarly to how they did when it was a full circle. 

The 11 has always been like this to an extent. I used it to and from school for 7 years in the 1980s and whilst traffic is far worse now than it was then, you'd still get large gaps is service, then 2 or 3 buses would arrive together. It's the nature of the route with it crossing so many major junctions and trunk routes. 

[mesub]

Interesting to 1793 driving around in Harborne. Looks like there was a driver and then another staff member who got off every few stops to place posters on bus stops, possibly about the 76 service changes.

[BBS]

Interesting to 1793 driving around in Harborne. Looks like there was a driver and then another staff member who got off every few stops to place posters on bus stops, possibly about the 76 service changes.

Acocks Green doesn't operate the 76, Yardley Wood does 

[mesub]

Acocks Green doesn't operate the 76, Yardley Wood does

Yes but 1793 is a AG bus.