Service changes 28th April 2019

[Bob]

And if they mysteriously disappear at Cannock Bus Station. like they did with the 54 & 154.

With "1 & 2 still operating as usual" posters tied to stop posts like the pathetic ones for the 70 that went up in featherstone?

[l.murphy123]

An X51 passed me in Landywood, Holly Lane, as not in service with staff on board

[Tony]

An X51 passed me in Landywood, Holly Lane, as not in service with staff on board

If it was not in service then it wasn't an X51

[l.murphy123]

If it was not in service then it wasn't an X51

I meant it was an X51 branded platinum... im sure you could work that out

[Stuharris 6360]

I struggle to see how the new 10A/C (ex part 288) service is going to work.

Firstly and post importantly, the service will not stop in Stourbridge High Street. This in the past has been why a lot of elderly people around Oldswinford & Pedmore used the service. Having to walk either to/from Hagley Road or Stourbridge Bus Station will in my opinion not work. People will use Ring & Ride instead.

Also making it into a half hourly service, it wasn't very well patronised as an hourly service, so half hour seems stupid.

[Steveminor]

Well if more people use ring & ride surely that is a good thing they need all the passengers they can get at the moment if they are to be saved.

[karl724223]

I struggle to see how the new 10A/C (ex part 288) service is going to work.

Firstly and post importantly, the service will not stop in Stourbridge High Street. This in the past has been why a lot of elderly people around Oldswinford & Pedmore used the service. Having to walk either to/from Hagley Road or Stourbridge Bus Station will in my opinion not work. People will use Ring & Ride instead.

Also making it into a half hourly service, it wasn't very well patronised as an hourly service, so half hour seems stupid.

if Dudley council did more to enforce parking restrictions they probably wouldn't have lost the town link Dudley council are shit when it comes to parking problems
Except roads around Russell's hall hospital easy pickings

[l.murphy123]

New paper timetables (for the X5 at least) are in the Birmingham travel shop on Corporation Street. Assuming they will be in others such as Walsall.

[Westy]

Just had a thought.

Will the 31 / 32 return fares be accepted/issued on the X51 between Bloxwich & Walsall, as it's all stops as well?

[Westy]

Hmm.

According to Facebook, Arriva appearing to fight back on the 1 & 2 with special fares!

(Whistles !)

[winston]

Hmm.

According to Facebook, Arriva appearing to fight back on the 1 & 2 with special fares!

(Whistles !)

Amazing how such drastic fare cuts can now be justified. It's exactly the same on the weekly's that First Scotland East (West Lothian) have just done with Lothian Country Buses piling on the pressure. Makes you wonder if passengers were being overcharged in the first place for a 40% cut.

[Westy]

Between Bloxwich & Walsall, on both routes, signs & timetables now being changed.

(Earlier witnessed the one outside my house being changed!)


In addition, the Bloxwich Road, Stafford Street & High Street stops have had a NX notice promoting the improved service tied to the stops.


@Bob  or anyone on the Staffs section, have these notices appeared on your stops yet?

[CL]

Between Bloxwich & Walsall, on both routes, signs & timetables now being changed.

Nowhere near Bloxwich/Walsall, but I saw a few 52s cropping up on bus stop flags around Constitution Hill (in place of the 46, of course)

[MasterPlan]

Nowhere near Bloxwich/Walsall, but I saw a few 52s cropping up on bus stop flags around Constitution Hill (in place of the 46, of course)

Perhaps they can add the 74 while they're at it.

[Kevin_Brum12]

Between Bloxwich & Walsall, on both routes, signs & timetables now being changed.

(Earlier witnessed the one outside my house being changed!)


In addition, the Bloxwich Road, Stafford Street & High Street stops have had a NX notice promoting the improved service tied to the stops.


@Bob  or anyone on the Staffs section, have these notices appeared on your stops yet?

The posters have also appeared on the stops used by the X51 between Walsall and Birmingham, while the electronic totem in Lower Bull Street has a message about the extended service.