If you had the chance to modify or add any service, what would you do?

[leewhayward29]

Well that 25 takes well over an hour to do Bloxwich to Kingstanding so if a route like that can be operated .....

What would you have doing the route?

[Westy]

What would you have doing the route?

Do you mean a particular vehicle type?

[leewhayward29]

Do you mean a particular vehicle type?

Yea

[John]

71 used to go under the Mackadown bridge but the 17 still actually does.

The 71 goes under a low bridge in Castle Vale

[Westy]

Yea

Well if Arriva still did the route, the existing Darts would be suitable.

Same with Diamond.

Nx own existing small vehicles are already committed plus they probably wouldnt bid low enough anyway if they did bother.

[Reece]

S3 > Should be extended from Wythall to Redditch to offer more direct links to Solihull and then cut the Hockley Heath / Dorridge section. That then can be operated by the S2/S4 which could then can be extended to Hockley Heath rather than finishing in Dorridge and offer Hockley Heath a half hourly service rather than hourly one so win win situation if you ask me.

[Kevin]

S3 > Should be extended from Wythall to Redditch to offer more direct links to Solihull and then cut the Hockley Heath / Dorridge section. That then can be operated by the S2/S4 which could then can be extended to Hockley Heath rather than finishing in Dorridge and offer Hockley Heath a half hourly service rather than hourly one so win win situation if you ask me.

Something I've genuinely wondered about before is why something more isn't made of a Redditch - Solihull service, especially now with Diamond having such a presence in both areas.
I would have suggested either extending the S2 from Cheswick Green through Earlswood and Wood End (sizable population there without a reasonable bus service) or run the S3 more direct straight from Dickens Heath to Wythall and then as per the X50... Or indeed both, lol

[Reece]

Something I've genuinely wondered about before is why something more isn't made of a Redditch - Solihull service, especially now with Diamond having such a presence in both areas.
I would have suggested either extending the S2 from Cheswick Green through Earlswood and Wood End (sizable population there without a reasonable bus service) or run the S3 more direct straight from Dickens Heath to Wythall and then as per the X50... Or indeed both, lol

@Simon Dunn please take note the S3 would be an even more popular service if it extended to Redditch even if it was just a 2 month trial.

[Tony]

@Simon Dunn please take note the S3 would be an even more popular service if it extended to Redditch even if it was just a 2 month trial.

Have you surveyed all these possible passengers? would there be enough of them to pay a high enough fare to pay the cost of an extra vehicle?

A two month trial is almost impossible to do, do you register it, then almost immediately deregister it to give the required 56 days notice of cancellation before you know if people were going to use it. If not then you have to leave it running for another 56 days at the end of two months costing a lot of money carrying no-one.

That is why most operators actually do a lot of research before starting a route and don't just do it on a whim, or a thought that it might work

[Westy]

Not too familiar with the Diamond services in the Southern Black Country/Kidderminster area, but is there any services linking the 2 areas?

I can only think of the 192 between Kiddy & Halesowen.

[the trainbasher]

And the 147 Halesowen to Bromsgrove to Worcester
202 Halesowen to Bromsgrove too

[Reece]

Not too familiar with the Diamond services in the Southern Black Country/Kidderminster area, but is there any services linking the 2 areas?

I can only think of the 192 between Kiddy & Halesowen.

The 580 to Kinver from Kidderminster which only runs twice a day.

[Liberator9]

@Reece

No way would those kind of plans for the S2/S3 work - barely any demand really for Solihull-Redditch by bus - would be too long a journey to be worthwhile. Can't simply scrap the S3 Knowle section which is well used and vital. Hockley Heath already has a bus every half hour as well! If anything I'd want the 40A/40C reinstated. The S3 shortened between Solihull and Wythall/Dickens Heath, and the old 151 reintroduced between Solihull and Hockley Heath, although extended round to Cheswick Green either from the Dorridge end or Solihull end. 

[Steveminor]

I agree with liberator. Having operated both the x50  & the s7 at Ampm.  Oops sorry solihull travel.
We offered that tickets brought on  either service could be used on the other so that people could travel from solihull to redditch & both services connected at maypole.
The amount of people that took up this option.
15 throughout the entire time we operated both routes.

[The Fox 4846]

Would the 80 work operated by Omnilink's?