Service/timetable changes from 2nd July 2023

[Stu]

This is a first! TfWM updating timetables at stops BEFORE any published changes have even been announced!

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Noticed this morning at my bus stop on Trittiford Road that there is a new timetable effective from Sunday 2nd July for the 3 (YW).
Apart from some additional journeys during the peaks, the basic daytime frequency Monday to Saturday is being reduced to half-hourly.

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There's nothing on the NX Bus website about forthcoming service/timetable changes, though the new timetables for the 2 (also reduced to half-hourly) and 3 are on the TfWM website.

Seems a bit early for summer holiday timetable changes to be honest.

Anyone else seen any as-yet-unannounced timetable changes at stops yet?

[Tony]

This is a first! TfWM updating timetables at stops BEFORE any published changes have even been announced!

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Noticed this morning at my bus stop on Trittiford Road that there is a new timetable effective from Sunday 2nd July for the 3 (YW).
Apart from some additional journeys during the peaks, the basic daytime frequency Monday to Saturday is being reduced to half-hourly.

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There's nothing on the NX Bus website about forthcoming service/timetable changes, though the new timetables for the 2 (also reduced to half-hourly) and 3 are on the TfWM website.

Seems a bit early for summer holiday timetable changes to be honest.

Anyone else seen any as-yet-unannounced timetable changes at stops yet?

It is just the school holiday timetable, I believe September is planned for the same service levels as now.

[Steve3229vp]

It is just the school holiday timetable, I believe September is planned for the same service levels as now.

Let's hope it deters YW from putting Omnilinks on it

[Coventrybususer95]

Wonder what changes are going to happen in Coventry 

[BBS]

Let's hope it deters YW from putting Omnilinks on it

What's Wrong with omnilinks?

[Steve3229vp]

What's Wrong with omnilinks?

They're too small, there's too many of them and there is nothing worse than been squashed standing a bus route that is normally operated double deckers. 
Before anyone puts the comment 'better than no bus at all'! Believe me it is not !

[BBS]

They're too small, there's too many of them and there is nothing worse than been squashed standing a bus route that is normally operated double deckers.
Before anyone puts the comment 'better than no bus at all'! Believe me it is not !

Well it is better than no bus, you rather get somewhere in a crowded bus rather than having to do something like Uber which prices have hicked up quite a lot 

[woody38]

Can't understand why they don't transfer the omnilinks to Wolverhampton or Walsall where there is less demand & transfer the deckers to depots like Yardley Wood where ther is more demand 

[BNH2004]

Can't understand why they don't transfer the omnilinks to Wolverhampton or Walsall where there is less demand & transfer the deckers to depots like Yardley Wood where ther is more demand

WN and WA need the deckers they have and WN aren't type trained on them

[Tony]

Can't understand why they don't transfer the omnilinks to Wolverhampton or Walsall where there is less demand & transfer the deckers to depots like Yardley Wood where ther is more demand

What makes you think Walsall or Wolverhampton have less demand? All garages have the problem of too many singles except BC, CV will be sorted by next month and hopefully all the others by this time next year when 300 more doubles will be available 

[James1987]

Can't understand why they don't transfer the omnilinks to Wolverhampton or Walsall where there is less demand & transfer the deckers to depots like Yardley Wood where ther is more demand

I can't speak for Wolverhampton as I don't use them routes. But I use the Walsall-Birmingham routes a good few times a week and I can assure you their peak time services X51/934-7/997 are rammed full and really do need doubles. I see single deckers on these routes too, to cover for not enough doubles, I was on a single a few weeks ago, standing room only on it. As mentioned before most garages have too many single decker buses, it is what it is for the time been, can't be helped. Hopefully we will see things start to change towards the end of the year/start of next year once new doubles start arriving. 

[Stu]

It is just the school holiday timetable, I believe September is planned for the same service levels as now.

Thanks, that's reassuring to know. I was just concerned there may be a number of service reductions due to cost-cutting or something like that. In the few years I have been using the 2 and 3 they've always retained a 20min daytime frequency during the holidays, just with reduced journey times.

[Sh4318]

Can't understand why they don't transfer the omnilinks to Wolverhampton or Walsall where there is less demand & transfer the deckers to depots like Yardley Wood where ther is more demand

Have WN ever actually operated Omnilinks?

[Tony]

Thanks, that's reassuring to know. I was just concerned there may be a number of service reductions due to cost-cutting or something like that. In the few years I have been using the 2 and 3 they've always retained a 20min daytime frequency during the holidays, just with reduced journey times.

The good news is this isn't happening. It is now staying 20 min frequency for each service

[Stu]

Let's hope it deters YW from putting Omnilinks on it

Unfortunately at the present time, they really don't have much of a choice, they've got all these OmniLinks at YW and they need to use them somewhere. While not ideal, they're probably better off on the 2 and 3, than on the 18, 35, 49 or 76.

Before anyone puts the comment 'better than no bus at all'! Believe me it is not !

Well it is better than no bus, you rather get somewhere in a crowded bus rather than having to do something like Uber which prices have hicked up quite a lot

When you're waiting at a stop for a bus which sails straight past because it is rammed full, then the feeling is much the same as if a bus didn't turn up.