VERY Late running services

[Kevin]

6832 running 15 late with the 15:58 X1 from Cov.
Destination stuck on Coventry and the next stop insisting every stop is Pool Meadow.

Actually scrap that, display inside just changed to "next stop Moor Street Queensway" while still in Allesley...

[Trident 4194]

11s are screwed. All running NIS

[Tony]

11s are screwed. All running NIS

No they're not.

[Trident 4194]

No they're not.

4 passed selly oak oak tree lane NIS. Cowboy operator drove straight past too 15 minutes late!

[2206]

11A's were running very late this evening, had a 45 minute wait for one this evening, 40+ people waiting for it at the Swan. 2 packed double deckers turned up Managed to get on 6137 at about 17:25.
I don't use this journey everyday, but everyday I do there always seems to be big 40 minute gaps in service in the PM peak. AM peak seems to run much more reliably. 

[fleetline6477]

11s are screwed. All running NIS

All running NIS, what all 20 plus of them!!

[Tony]

All running NIS, what all 20 plus of them!!

And the other 20 going the other way!

[BK63 YWP]

11s are screwed. All running NIS

All 40 buses out of service? 4 is not all of them...

[Stu]

11A's were running very late this evening, had a 45 minute wait for one this evening, 40+ people waiting for it at the Swan. 2 packed double deckers turned up Managed to get on 6137 at about 17:25.
I don't use this journey everyday, but everyday I do there always seems to be big 40 minute gaps in service in the PM peak. AM peak seems to run much more reliably.

I'm not sure if they have finished now, but there have been four-way controlled traffic lights at the Yardley Wood Road / Swanshurst Lane island in Billesley that have been causing havoc for the last few days.

[MW]

The problem that the 11 has is that typically, you do 2 trips before a break and you can drive no more  than 5hour30mins in one go legally. Peak trips are between 2hour 35 to 3 hours as far as I remember. In a lot of cases, if you're more than 10 mins late, you will be over your hours, and when there's unavoidable congestion/delays, you will sometimes have to terminate short. Sometimes, you'll see buses at Sarehole Mill on the 11A parked up as the driver cannot drive any further, and Yardley/Swan on the 11C.

The bus will then have to be collected by the next driver and an inspector to ferry the old driver back to depot for his/her break, and then the bus would be adjusted back into service.

I myself saw about 5 11 branded MMCs running NIS on Warwick Road in Tyseley today.

[John]

3 X51s have all just left City together

[SK68MEV]

6 11A running in convoy at about half 5 seen on bromford lane

[2206]

7019 and 1927 came into Sutton and left together on the 66 at about 13:30. Every 30 minute service, so one of them must have been 30 minutes late.

[2206]

Bristol Road and University services seem to have lots of disruption this evening for some reason.
I noticed a 63 to Frankley at Birmingham University on Edgbaston Park Road at about 16:00, carrying passengers (61/63 Branded Hybrid). With 5517 following NIS closely behind.

Univerisity services were all bunched together. 6892 was at the University heading towards Cofton Hacket on the X20 at 16:00, 46 minutes late with another full X20 and X21 closely behind (Passeed 2 X20's together and 2 X21's heading the other way in convey as well).
6880 was also 37 minutes heading into Birmingham at 16:45 on the X22, with another X22 and a few more X20/1's behind.

[monkeyjoe]

City centre was carnage roads closed and pride lorries setting up effecting pershore rd / Bristol Rd buses . It was carnage when trying to get my car from Bristol street garage after not moving for 40 mins on Sherlock street did a u turn and went home. Feel sorry for bus passengers and drivers