Merry Hill Bus Station

[Ash]

Some of the mercs at PE already have on board speakers and on screen stop displays telling you of the next stop from when they were used on the 404 they seem to work well on the 404  and I know 1525/1537/1658 has them onboard dont know wether they were taken out of the withdrawn mercs

[wilmotm (Matt Wilmot)]

Having travelled on the vast majority of PE Merc's I think there is only around 5 with the technology remaining with the three you mentioned being some of them, but this is still surely nowhere near enough to cover 246, X96, and 297

[Ash]

No its not but 15 of the mercs at WB when used to be specifically for the 404 had them and some of the tridents on the 900 so there were a few around.

[Andrew1991]

Doesn't euro 5 mean that the merc's won't be able to serve brierley hill/merry hill anyway. So what's going to happen with all of those being transferred to pensnett, are they going to transfer to somewhere else when the new buses are delivered or are they destined for the scrap heap. 

[Tomjusttom]

One way ticket to west bromwich??

[Ash]

One way ticket to west bromwich??

West Bromwich or Wolverhampton or the newer ones to Coventry to replace the older R reg ones currently in use there

[Badger]

How many buses will this £2.2m buy? I'm not too savvy on prices, I'd guess what, £100k for a single, £200k for one of the hybrid doubles?

I'm hoping that out of either this or the new hybrids for WN the 255 will get some new buses, it's my most used route once I'm in Wolverhampton.

[JackC]

How many buses will this £2.2m buy? I'm not too savvy on prices, I'd guess what, £100k for a single, £200k for one of the hybrid doubles?

I'm hoping that out of either this or the new hybrids for WN the 255 will get some new buses, it's my most used route once I'm in Wolverhampton.

Doing a quick google search, an Enviro400H costs around £300k. I'd guess other hybrid deckers would be similarly priced. A normal double decker seems to come in at just under £200,000K, and so I'd guess a single decker would be around the £100k mark.

[PM]

Streetlite is £115-120, 000 other single decks heavy duty are more like over £140, 000