West Midlands to take over Diamond route

[BU07 LGO]

I have no idea but I cant really see them using normal buses on the kingstanding corridor.

[2206]

Wouldn't more Platinum's be required or are there sufficient spares at WA?

Haven't a few been used on the 77 recently? @Winston

[Kevin]

And putting more buses on the corridor

apparently to be called 933 or 937

Ok this genuinely surprises me. Is there really much need for another route up that way? Surely just increasing the current 936 and re-routing say the 997 up Erdington Road would cover it?

[Tony]

Ok this genuinely surprises me. Is there really much need for another route up that way? Surely just increasing the current 936 and re-routing say the 997 up Erdington Road would cover it?

The difference is the amount of resources Diamond were putting in to the peak journeys which adds a lot of costs to the route. NX will be able to carry all the passengers using a lot less additional peak vehicles because of all the buses already covering parts of the route