VERY Late running services

[Stu]

Due to the carnage caused by whatever was going on on Moor Street this evening I actually gave up on waiting for a 23 and walked part of the way home. Eventually picked up a bus that I assume must have started service from Five Ways, Calthorpe Road as it wasn't busy.

Haven't seen things that bad in a long time.

Does anybody know what actually happened?

I understand there was chaos this morning due to a crane:
https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/traffic-chaos-birmingham-city-centre-27918817

According to NX West Midlands on Twitter, Priory Queensway is scheduled to be closed from Weds 18th from 1:30am to 4:30am "in preparation for crane lift"

[MasterPlan]

Due to the carnage caused by whatever was going on on Moor Street this evening I actually gave up on waiting for a 23 and walked part of the way home. Eventually picked up a bus that I assume must have started service from Five Ways, Calthorpe Road as it wasn't busy.

Haven't seen things that bad in a long time.

I actually saw a 23 going the wrong way, it swung round to the Moor St stops and carried on towards New St outbound.

Does anybody know what actually happened?

I understand there was chaos this morning due to a crane:
https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/traffic-chaos-birmingham-city-centre-27918817

According to NX West Midlands on Twitter, Priory Queensway is scheduled to be closed from Weds 18th from 1:30am to 4:30am "in preparation for crane lift"

There were signs saying Priory Queensway will be closed from 14th-17th but it didn't say what for.

[Mike K]

I actually saw a 23 going the wrong way, it swung round to the Moor St stops and carried on towards New St outbound.

Yes you're right, I think it was 6864 I caught, and bustimes shows that as doing a u-turn on Moor Street and heading out of town via Bath Row to Five Ways, which explains why there weren't many people on it.

[Tony]

I actually saw a 23 going the wrong way, it swung round to the Moor St stops and carried on towards New St outbound.

There were signs saying Priory Queensway will be closed from 14th-17th but it didn't say what for.

It was probably instructed to, to avoid the chaos and actually give the other end of the route some service

[MasterPlan]

It was probably instructed to, to avoid the chaos and actually give the other end of the route some service

Yeah I don't doubt that just saying what I saw is all.

[Stu]

Yes you're right, I think it was 6864 I caught, and bustimes shows that as doing a u-turn on Moor Street and heading out of town via Bath Row to Five Ways, which explains why there weren't many people on it.

It was probably instructed to, to avoid the chaos and actually give the other end of the route some service

Yes, I got lucky myself this evening, I got on a 3 (1929) this evening that was half-empty and had to wait around five minutes by Aldi as it was early. When I checked on BusTimes when I got back home, it had turned around at the Markets so had avoided the chaos.
After getting off the 3 on Trittiford Road to pop into the shop, while walking back up I saw 1912 coming down the road, which was around 40mins late at that point.
https://bustimes.org/vehicles/tnxb-wa-1912#journeys/490790644

[2206]

There were signs saying Priory Queensway will be closed from 14th-17th but it didn't say what for.

Big cranes and trucks in the middle of the road. To do with the new block they've been building there for sometime now.

[BBS]

6869 was delayed by almost 40 minutes on X1

[Jack6101]

Trindle road was gridlocked last night someone I know was stuck on an 87 for nearly /close to an hour from the top of Trindle road to castle gate island 

[Danthebusman]

Instead of very late, it's very early. E158 running 7 minutes early on the 17 on this particular trip. https://bustimes.org/vehicles/tcvw-e158#journeys/491240953

[Tony]

Instead of very late, it's very early. E158 running 7 minutes early on the 17 on this particular trip. https://bustimes.org/vehicles/tcvw-e158#journeys/491240953

Did you actually see the bus 7 minutes early?
It's not tracking properly, it is only connecting approximately 33% of the time and the GPS is not accurate

[Danthebusman]

Did you actually see the bus 7 minutes early?
It's not tracking properly, it is only connecting approximately 33% of the time and the GPS is not accurate

I saw it on Walsgrave Road just after the  Harefield Rd stop heading inbound around 17:06 so it was running roughly 5 minutes early, I was onboard E095 heading outbound.

[Tony]

I saw it on Walsgrave Road just after the  Harefield Rd stop heading inbound around 17:06 so it was running roughly 5 minutes early, I was onboard E095 heading outbound.

E095 passed E158 at Harefield Road at 17:08, E158 was due there at 17:10, so not 5 minutes early

[cris 99]

X12s heavily delayed this evening 6851 was 86 mins late with 6852 59 late. Expect it's due to the caravan show at the NEC

[MasterPlan]

7:00 X21 to City didn't bother to turn up this morning. Imagine wanting to run to Merry Hill when you can't even run your Monday to Friday properly.