Subsidised bus service ideas (Whitley and Willenhall, Coventry)

[Adam 404]

27 27a 41 withdrawn
New 22 From Pool Meadow - Stonehouse estate via old X16 route till then Yarningdale Rd then down St James Lane, then left and as 41 to terminate.
22a variant from Pool Meadow - Middlemarch via above 22 route till St JJames Lane then Left turn onto London Rd then as 27a to middlemarch. Only 2 buses will be need for operation as during peak times both buses would be in operation as 22a and one stays out in the daytime as 22.
I have came up with a timetable which I will post in the morning.

[JPC]

Not forgetting service 41 is contractually combined with the Cannon Park service 47,  but I've had various ideas on this...

The plentiful drop back service 87 currently has at Pool Meadow could allow it to extend with just one added bus via your suggested route and reintroduce a link to Coventry Rail Station, and also call via Canley Road or Cannon Park estate on relevant/certain off peak journeys to kill off the 47 service, Those Canley Rd/Cannon Park/Stonehouse bits can be forgotten about at peak time to maintain the hourly timetable and reliabilty.  Certain/relevant service 580 journeys could go via Stonehouse and provide the estate with similar coverage to what the 41 does. I suppose it would depend if the Stonehouse bus users would prefer 3 journeys per day on a direct route or 6+ journeys per day on a convoluted route. Either way this would cover Centro subsidised routes 27/41/47 with one less bus overall.

NXC runs the 27A to Middlemarch on a commercial basis so that service is likely to remain as it is for the foreseeable future.

[Adam 404]

Anyway... This is the timetable I had in mind
22 / 22A Coventry – Stonehouse Estate via Abbey Road, Willenhall       Monday to Friday
Number                    22a    22a    22a   22a   22E   22                 22     22E  22a   22E   22a   22E
City Pool Meadow     0620 0650 0720 0750 0820 0929    22        1429 1539 1609 1639 1709 1739
The Avenue             0629 0659 0729 0759 0829 0938 is every    1438 1548 1618 1648 1718 1748
Remembrance Rd     0635 0705 0735 0805 0835 0944 60 mins   1444 1554 1624 1654 1724 1754
Stonehouse Estate --------------------------- 0841 0950   till         1450 1600 ------1700 -------1800
Middlemarch             0645 0715 0745 0815 0848                               1609 1634 1709 1734 1809
Number                       22a  22a   22a    22E   22E   22     22      22    22e   22a    22e   22a   22e
Middlemarch             0650 0720 0750 0820 0850    22 is Every         1610 1640 1710 1740 1810
Stonehouse               -------------------0825 0855 0955   60     1455 1615--------1715-------1815
Remembrance Rd      0700 0730 0800 0833 0903 1003   mins  1503 1623 1650 1723 1750 1823
The Avenue              0706 0736 0806 0839 0909 1009   Till     1509 1629 1656 1729 1756 1829
Pool Meadow            0715 0745 0815 0848 0918 1018            1518 1638 1705 1738 1805 1837
Note: 22E is as 22 and turns right to Middlemarch as 22a.
Goes round Stonehouse in the same direction inbound and outbound.

22 Coventry - Stonehouse via Willenhall   Saturday
Number                    22               22
Pool Meadow          0729  Every  1729
The Avenue            0738    60    1738
Remembrance Rd    0744 mins   1744
Stonehouse            0750           1750
Stonehouse            0755 Every  1755
Remembrance Rd   0803    60    1803
The Avenue            0809 mins   1809
Pool Meadow          0818           1818

[Adam 404]

Also, in reply to the 47, route 5 could be made to always have single deckers so it can go under Canley Road bridge as 5a and then go up Fletchhamsted Hwy to Torrington Ave. Then all 18a buses between 9am and 4pm could go via Bransford Ave to cover the 47 subsidy.

[JPC]

Canley Road has a footbridge over the rail line so the largest vehicle which can cross the rail line here is probably a bicycle. :)
The current 47 is likely the appropriate level of service so re-routing 87 would provide similar level of service and maintain the link from Canley Road to Cannon Park shopping centre.  The 5 and 18A are rather constrained for time so unlikely to have any more bits of route added.

[JoNi]

The 41 and 47 are shoppers services.
"Planners" would be best off contacting residents by leaflet asking specifically when they need buses and what for, rather than starting with one bus and attempting cram as many journeys in as possible. I've seen the 09:08 from Cannon Park en route a number of times always empty not surprising as it runs before the OAP pass is valid. Soon after NX 12's are running empty back to Coventry from the nearby Uni!
Stonehouse needs small buses due to parking and residents use a footpath to walk out of the estate directly to The Chase.

The De Courcey depot is just around the corner from Stonehouse!

As mentioned routes tend to be contractually combined rather than efficiently interworked with the contract stating tickets from any partcipating operators being valid.