New Buses Order 2017

[winston]

Winston-does that depend on who wins the said election?

Potentially, although TfWM are happy with the bus alliance routes, the new mayor could always throw a spanner in the works depending on their policies.

[monkeyjoe]

A tory Mayor that is a surprise, what does it mean then?

[Tony]

A tory Mayor that is a surprise, what does it mean then?

It means we haven't got an idiot called Sion Simon who was spouting a lot of crap about buses, but hadn't got a clue what he was spouting about. Andy Street seems to be in favour of the partnership between TfWM and operators as now

[Trident 4194]

It means we haven't got an idiot called Sion Simon who was spouting a lot of crap about buses, but hadn't got a clue what he was spouting about. Andy Street seems to be in favour of the partnership between TfWM and operators as now

Isn't that what all politicians are about? The new air pollution one makes me laugh. Heard something about getting rid of speed bumps?

[monkeyjoe]

Well not followed any of this and a bit off subject, thought I have to say although a Tory I guess he was responsible to bring major investment in the form of John Lewis Grand Central into Birmingham so can't be all bad.

[winston]

It means we haven't got an idiot called Sion Simon who was spouting a lot of crap about buses, but hadn't got a clue what he was spouting about. Andy Street seems to be in favour of the partnership between TfWM and operators as now

Hopefully, the new Mayor will be in favour of more bus priorties, park & ride schemes and potentially even consider making some parts of the City Centre buses only to allow buses to get in/out much quicker.

[markcf83]

Well not followed any of this and a bit off subject, thought I have to say although a Tory I guess he was responsible to bring major investment in the form of John Lewis Grand Central into Birmingham so can't be all bad.

Given that he was the boss of John Lewis I suspect he did.

[monkeyjoe]

Given that he was the boss of John Lewis I suspect he did.

That's why I wrote it.

[Wolves256]

When will NXWM announce the 2017 new bus orders?
Wasn't there supposed to be some gas or hybrid bused for the Hagley road corridor?
I assume as a minimum the Merc artics at Cov, Presidents at Dundee plus some of the earlier Tridents will need to be replaced

[Stu]

When will NXWM announce the 2017 new bus orders?

They will announce them when they're ready to announce them, that is assuming there actually will be any this year.

Wasn't there supposed to be some gas or hybrid bused for the Hagley road corridor?

I can't find the article on the NX Bus website now, but I'm sure I read there that the hydrogen and electric buses won't be coming until next year (2018).

[winston]

@Stu - you are correct. The electric buses & hydrogen fuel cell buses weren't due until 2018. There were meant to be 10 x Gyro Drive Wright DD's due this year, these were announced with the above, I suspect these aren't happening now.

[BK63 YWP]

I would suspect that the new buses will be 67/18 plates as it seems according to Flickr that Stagecoach and Arriva have had a a lot of their deliveries and Wright's have been building Oxford, Stagecoach and London buses. I do not know what the capacity of number of vehicles that can be built in one sitting, but first Haven't had any new buses at the moment

[Tony]

An order has been placed with delivery at the end of the year, but you'll have to wait until the official announcement tofind out what and where for

[Westy]

Havent more emission zones been announced?

Depending on where the next one is, wouldnt that be a clue?

[Wolves256]

Here is the link to an article in Euro Transport

https://www.eurotransportmagazine.com/20058/news/industry-news/cleaner-buses-west-midlands-3m-funding-win/