Electric Buses

[Budgie]

A rare foray into Brum for me yesterday and the Electric Buses really do make Birmingham worthy of its 2nd City status. Spent a bit of time in Oxford recently and the Go Ahead Electrics are nice to be on.  Sure there were a few tatty and worn vehicles on display in Brum but with the modern trams as well as newish platinum's together with the Electrics, they do raise the status of the City Centre I think.  The older buses in Walsall reflect the worn out look of the town centre. I reckon the new electrics give Birmingham City Centre as a whole a lift.

[Tony]

If that's a bus lane where are the cars supposed to go

So it's OK for them to drive into oncoming traffic?

[BlackCountryBusSpotter]

Unfortunately the amount of illegal street racing doesn't help either

That usually happens at night when buses are either aren't running or are reduced. And it has been banned now. 

[Stu]

If that's a bus lane where are the cars supposed to go

So it's OK for them to drive into oncoming traffic?

It's a good question, I think they meant where should the 'general traffic' be being routed away from this bus lane.

I will have to go and investigate for myself; I assume traffic should be going via Alcester Street onto Bradford Street.

[Tony]

It's a good question, I think they meant where should the 'general traffic' be being routed away from this bus lane.

I will have to go and investigate for myself; I assume traffic should be going via Alcester Street onto Bradford Street.

That is the aim when all the work is complete.

There's also a short section of Bus Lane outbound after Floodgate Street to stop through traffic using Digbeth and High Street Deritend, but allows vehicles access to all properties.

[Jack]

Those cars aren't street racing though

That's just ignoring the new road layout - it's been a few weeks since I last travelled into the city and I don't remember that bus lane being there. Unfortunately it only takes one idiot trying to be clever for other unwitting motorists to just follow them and do the same!

Ever since the layout their changed it's quite common to see car drivers not familiar with it and driving in the wrong lanes until something is in oncoming and forcing them over. Now I think the thick white line for the bus lane has come and they are thinking that's buses only and need to drive in the other lane!