The Green Bus

[woody38]

Are Green bus pulling out of the WM, on the VOSA website today they have deregestered a lot of school services, the other day the 50 was also on there. Does anybody now if they are pulling out or not, all the services withdrawn are from September 2013

[nitromatt1]

Are Green bus pulling out of the WM, on the VOSA website today they have deregestered a lot of school services, the other day the 50 was also on there. Does anybody now if they are pulling out or not, all the services withdrawn are from September 2013

I already said that the services aren't being withdrawn! They have already sold tens of thousands of pounds worth of passes for next years services, and let me just assure you they are not withdrawing off the 50

[Steveminor]

You have to remember green bus school routes do change depending on where the children who buy passes live, so it is very likely once they have collated the data there will be a ruck of new registrations.

[nitromatt1]

You have to remember green bus school routes do change depending on where the children who buy passes live, so it is very likely once they have collated the data there will be a ruck of new registrations.

Last I heard only one route was changing, one of the Five Ways routes

[winston]

New Greenbus registrations on VOSA today:

PD1090982/24 - THE GREEN BUS COMPANY LIMITED T/A THE GREEN BUS, 386 PARK ROAD, HOCKLEY, BIRMINGHAM, BS18 5ST
        Registration Accepted
        Starting Point: Wednesbury, Holyhead Road
        Finish Point: Bartley Green, King Edward Five Ways School
        Via:
        Service Number: FW7
        Service Type: Normal Stopping
        Effective Date: 16-SEP-2013
        Other Details: School days only.

PD1090982/25 - THE GREEN BUS COMPANY LIMITED T/A THE GREEN BUS, 386 PARK ROAD, HOCKLEY, BIRMINGHAM, BS18 5ST
        Registration Accepted
        Starting Point: Bearwood, Hagley Road West
        Finish Point: Hagley Catholic School
        Via:
        Service Number: HC1
        Service Type: Normal Stopping
        Effective Date: 16-SEP-2013
        Other Details: School days only.

PD1090982/26 - THE GREEN BUS COMPANY LIMITED T/A THE GREEN BUS, 386 PARK ROAD, HOCKLEY, BIRMINGHAM, BS18 5ST
        Registration Accepted
        Starting Point: Winson Green, City Road
        Finish Point: Hagley Catholic School
        Via:
        Service Number: HC2
        Service Type: Normal Stopping
        Effective Date: 16-SEP-2013
        Other Details: School days only.

PD1090982/27 - THE GREEN BUS COMPANY LIMITED T/A THE GREEN BUS, 386 PARK ROAD, HOCKLEY, BIRMINGHAM, BS18 5ST
        Registration Accepted
        Starting Point: Bearwood, Hagley Road West
        Finish Point: Hagley Catholic School
        Via:
        Service Number: HC3
        Service Type: Normal Stopping
        Effective Date: 16-SEP-2013
        Other Details: School days only.

PD1090982/28 - THE GREEN BUS COMPANY LIMITED T/A THE GREEN BUS, 386 PARK ROAD, HOCKLEY, BIRMINGHAM, BS18 5ST
        Registration Accepted
        Starting Point: Smethwick, High Street
        Finish Point: Hagley Catholic School
        Via:
        Service Number: HC4
        Service Type: Normal Stopping
        Effective Date: 16-SEP-2013
        Other Details: School days only.

PD1090982/29 - THE GREEN BUS COMPANY LIMITED T/A THE GREEN BUS, 386 PARK ROAD, HOCKLEY, BIRMINGHAM, BS18 5ST
        Registration Accepted
        Starting Point: Handsworth, Hall Road
        Finish Point: Great Barr, Q3 Academy
        Via:
        Service Number: Q1
        Service Type: Normal Stopping
        Effective Date: 16-SEP-2013
        Other Details: School days only.

PD1090982/30 - THE GREEN BUS COMPANY LIMITED T/A THE GREEN BUS, 386 PARK ROAD, HOCKLEY, BIRMINGHAM, BS18 5ST
        Registration Accepted
        Starting Point: Kings Heath, Vicarage Road
        Finish Point: Hollywood, Woodrush Community School
        Via:
        Service Number: WR2
        Service Type: Normal Stopping
        Effective Date: 16-SEP-2013
        Other Details: School days only.

PD1090982/31 - THE GREEN BUS COMPANY LIMITED T/A THE GREEN BUS, 386 PARK ROAD, HOCKLEY, BIRMINGHAM, BS18 5ST
        Registration Accepted
        Starting Point: Handsworth, Hall Road
        Finish Point: Great Barr, Q3 Acadeny
        Via:
        Service Number: Q2
        Service Type: Normal Stopping
        Effective Date: 16-SEP-2013
        Other Details: School days only.

PD1090982/32 - THE GREEN BUS COMPANY LIMITED T/A THE GREEN BUS, 386 PARK ROAD, HOCKLEY, BIRMINGHAM, BS18 5ST
        Registration Accepted
        Starting Point: Edgbaston, Harborne Road
        Finish Point: Walsall, Queen Mary's High School
        Via:
        Service Number: QM1
        Service Type: Normal Stopping
        Effective Date: 16-SEP-2013
        Other Details: School days only.

PD1090982/33 - THE GREEN BUS COMPANY LIMITED T/A THE GREEN BUS, 386 PARK ROAD, HOCKLEY, BIRMINGHAM, BS18 5ST
        Registration Accepted
        Starting Point: Kidderminster Bus Station
        Finish Point: Bartley Green, King Edward Five Ways School
        Via:
        Service Number: FW6
        Service Type: Normal Stopping
        Effective Date: 16-SEP-2013
        Other Details: School days only.


    PD1090982/34 - THE GREEN BUS COMPANY LIMITED T/A THE GREEN BUS, 386 PARK ROAD, HOCKLEY, BIRMINGHAM, BS18 5ST
        Registration Accepted
        Starting Point: Kings Heath, Vicarage Road
        Finish Point: Hollywood, Woodrush Community School
        Via:
        Service Number: WR1
        Service Type: Normal Stopping
        Effective Date: 16-SEP-2013
        Other Details: School days only.

PD1090982/35 - THE GREEN BUS COMPANY LIMITED T/A THE GREEN BUS, 386 PARK ROAD, HOCKLEY, BIRMINGHAM, BS18 5ST
        Registration Accepted
        Starting Point: Little Aston, Rosemary Hill Road
        Finish Point: King Edward VI Handsworth School
        Via:
        Service Number: AH2
        Service Type: Normal Stopping
        Effective Date: 16-SEP-2013
        Other Details: School days only.

PD1090982/36 - THE GREEN BUS COMPANY LIMITED T/A THE GREEN BUS, 386 PARK ROAD, HOCKLEY, BIRMINGHAM, BS18 5ST
        Registration Accepted
        Starting Point: Hill Hook, Walsall Road
        Finish Point: King Edward VI Handsworth School
        Via:
        Service Number: AH3
        Service Type: Normal Stopping
        Effective Date: 16-SEP-2013
        Other Details: School days only.

PD1090982/37 - THE GREEN BUS COMPANY LIMITED T/A THE GREEN BUS, 386 PARK ROAD, HOCKLEY, BIRMINGHAM, BS18 5ST
        Registration Accepted
        Starting Point: Solihull Rail Station
        Finish Point: King Edward VI Handsworth School
        Via:
        Service Number: AH5
        Service Type: Normal Stopping
        Effective Date: 16-SEP-2013
        Other Details: School days only.

PD1090982/38 - THE GREEN BUS COMPANY LIMITED T/A THE GREEN BUS, 386 PARK ROAD, HOCKLEY, BIRMINGHAM, BS18 5ST
        Registration Accepted
        Starting Point: Northfield, Bristol Road South
        Finish Point: King Edward VI Handsworth School
        Via:
        Service Number: AH6
        Service Type: Normal Stopping
        Effective Date: 16-SEP-2013
        Other Details: School days only.

[JackC]

Wednesbury to Bartley Green? Now there's a route and a half.

[winston]

More registrations:

PD1090982/39 - THE GREEN BUS COMPANY LIMITED T/A THE GREEN BUS, 386 PARK ROAD, HOCKLEY, BIRMINGHAM, BS18 5ST

    Registration Accepted
    Starting Point: Weoley Castle, Castle Road
    Finish Point: King Edward VI Aston School
    Via:
    Service Number: AH7
    Service Type: Normal Stopping
    Effective Date: 16-SEP-2013
    Other Details: School days only.

PD1090982/40 - THE GREEN BUS COMPANY LIMITED T/A THE GREEN BUS, 386 PARK ROAD, HOCKLEY, BIRMINGHAM, BS18 5ST

    Registration Accepted
    Starting Point: Newtown, Newtown Row
    Finish Point: bartley Green, King Edward Five Ways School
    Via:
    Service Number: FW1
    Service Type: Normal Stopping
    Effective Date: 16-SEP-2013
    Other Details: School days only.

PD1090982/41 - THE GREEN BUS COMPANY LIMITED T/A THE GREEN BUS, 386 PARK ROAD, HOCKLEY, BIRMINGHAM, BS18 5ST

    Registration Accepted
    Starting Point: Erdington, Six Ways
    Finish Point: Bartley Green, King Edward Five Ways School
    Via:
    Service Number: FW2
    Service Type: Normal Stopping
    Effective Date: 16-SEP-2013
    Other Details: School days only.

PD1090982/42 - THE GREEN BUS COMPANY LIMITED T/A THE GREEN BUS, 386 PARK ROAD, HOCKLEY, BIRMINGHAM, BS18 5ST

    Registration Accepted
    Starting Point: Hockley Heath
    Finish Point: Bartley Green, King Edward Five Ways School
    Via:
    Service Number: FW4
    Service Type: Normal Stopping
    Effective Date: 16-SEP-2013
    Other Details: School days only.

PD1090982/43 - THE GREEN BUS COMPANY LIMITED T/A THE GREEN BUS, 386 PARK ROAD, HOCKLEY, BIRMINGHAM, BS18 5ST

    Registration Accepted
    Starting Point: Solihull, Station Road
    Finish Point: Bartley Green, King Edward Five Ways School
    Via:
    Service Number: FW5
    Service Type: Normal Stopping
    Effective Date: 16-SEP-2013
    Other Details: School days only.

[s94]

Has the Green Bus pulled out of its Stourbridge college etc routes? They have vanished from the Green bus site.

[nitromatt1]

Has the Green Bus pulled out of its Stourbridge college etc routes? They have vanished from the Green bus site.

I believe so

[PM]

Has the Green Bus pulled out of its Stourbridge college etc routes? They have vanished from the Green bus site.

I believe so

They were a stupid idea though. How they thought routes to a college would work when the whole point of a college is people come and go throughout the day not like school when its arrival time and leaving time-how could you have travel times to suit everyones needs and would people at college really want to have to have the school pattern again which is what the routes would have to follow ie morning and afternoon they couldnt do all routes all day and so they wouldnt suit people

[Stuharris 6360]

Has the Green Bus pulled out of its Stourbridge college etc routes? They have vanished from the Green bus site.

I believe so

They were a stupid idea though. How they thought routes to a college would work when the whole point of a college is people come and go throughout the day not like school when its arrival time and leaving time-how could you have travel times to suit everyones needs and would people at college really want to have to have the school pattern again which is what the routes would have to follow ie morning and afternoon they couldnt do all routes all day and so they wouldnt suit people

When i went to King Edward 6th form college in Stourbridge, it was more formalised than most colleges, with the day beginning at 09:00 & finishing at 15:30. However, for instance on Wednesday it was sports afternoon (think it still is) with many of the sports taking place away from the college. Plus the college finished at 15:00. So therefore it would be difficult to operate a bus service there.

[wilmotm (Matt Wilmot)]

Well Prospect seem to do very well with their Halesowen college service but then that is heavily subsidised I believe whereas with TGB and King Ed's speaking as a student who left just last year it was more of a case of the college begging TGB to start something just to satisfy some silly environmental cause! Which is even more rediculous considering most students already use public transport, the 246!

[PM]

Has the Green Bus pulled out of its Stourbridge college etc routes? They have vanished from the Green bus site.

I believe so

They were a stupid idea though. How they thought routes to a college would work when the whole point of a college is people come and go throughout the day not like school when its arrival time and leaving time-how could you have travel times to suit everyones needs and would people at college really want to have to have the school pattern again which is what the routes would have to follow ie morning and afternoon they couldnt do all routes all day and so they wouldnt suit people

When i went to King Edward 6th form college in Stourbridge, it was more formalised than most colleges, with the day beginning at 09:00 & finishing at 15:30. However, for instance on Wednesday it was sports afternoon (think it still is) with many of the sports taking place away from the college. Plus the college finished at 15:00. So therefore it would be difficult to operate a bus service there.

Didnt realise it was as formal as that but as you have said still hard to operate a service there

[nitromatt1]

I wouldn't expect many people to buy passes for the Stourbridge College services, as TGB set their pass prices high enough that you need to use the service almost every day in order to get your money's worth from buying the pass.

Many students would not be able to use the services every day, due to the flexibility of the hours they spend at college, therefore I expect that not many passes were sold. With most customers anticipated to be paying cash fares, it is likely that not enough money would be made from the services to make them financially viable, especially competing with the 246, 276, etc

[Trident 4609]

Matt, Are anymore Tridents arriving in time for September (School Services) to replace the metrobuses. One more question (Forgot to ask earlier) are anymore Spectras coming to Green Bus?