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THarris123

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Most interesting is the 10 and 11 in Minehead and Porlock getting a more regular service.

Those timetables look much much better than what they currently are. Much more sensible and it works so 10 and 11 have a 1 vehicle working only with clockface times (near enough). Just ashame they don't run on Saturdays.
 

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Those timetables look much much better than what they currently are. Much more sensible and it works so 10 and 11 have a 1 vehicle working only with clockface times (near enough). Just ashame they don't run on Saturdays.

i can see logic to the 10 running saturdays but 11 looks to do all it needs to do mon-fri.

the 21/21a timetable is awful. traffic in bridgewater may be bad, but 12-14 min layovers at the bus station every trip... you could almost catch the bus behind and make it on to the one in front if youre travelling across bridgwater.
 

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The next route to be branded will be the 6/7. They will be dark green in colour and by the looks of the pics they will be on the 51/52 plate deckers !
 

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The next route to be branded will be the 6/7. They will be dark green in colour and by the looks of the pics they will be on the 51/52 plate deckers !

I thought they would be replacing those by now, considering the new mayor wants low emission buses. Could be the 53 reg B7TLs (32288-92?).
 

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I thought they would be replacing those by now, considering the new mayor wants low emission buses. Could be the 53 reg B7TLs (32288-92?).

If the mayor wants to hand over £10 million to first I'm sure they will make the whole fleet low emissions ! and yeah by the looks of it it may be the 53 plate deckers, the same as are on them now. Just repainted and made to look nice again....
 

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i can see logic to the 10 running saturdays but 11 looks to do all it needs to do mon-fri.

the 21/21a timetable is awful. traffic in bridgewater may be bad, but 12-14 min layovers at the bus station every trip... you could almost catch the bus behind and make it on to the one in front if youre travelling across bridgwater.

I thought it would be other way around re 10/11. From my viewings of both services on a Saturday 11 would carry much more than 10.
 

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Services changing in April in Bristol (Most of these are likely to be City Centre changes)

1,2,3,4,8,9,24,36,70,72,73,75,902,903,A1,UWE

Hope the April changes are more interesting that just boring City Centre changes!
 

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Buses of Somerset Vo B10BLE/Wt 62245 has turned up at First Leicester, to be converted into a driver trainer.
 

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The next route to be branded will be the 6/7. They will be dark green in colour and by the looks of the pics they will be on the 51/52 plate deckers !

Sounds like the 6 & 7 will be around for a while yet then. As some on here were predicting they would be renumbered 40 & 41.
 

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i can see logic to the 10 running saturdays but 11 looks to do all it needs to do mon-fri.

the 21/21a timetable is awful. traffic in bridgewater may be bad, but 12-14 min layovers at the bus station every trip... you could almost catch the bus behind and make it on to the one in front if youre travelling across bridgwater.

EDF organised major dig in Bridgwater. This has been causing southbound 21s from Burnham to be about 15 late into Bridgwater bus station. So 21 and 21a both leaving for Taunton at the same time with a gap of 30 minutes in front and behind. The emergency timetable with recovery time at Bridgwater bus station is a good idea as southbound services should stay on time. People may not appreciate the 13 minutes sit on northbound services when it arrives on time into Bridgwater though.

It seems every day now there is an accident on M5 somewhere between Taunton and Weston-Super-Mare causing traffic to divert onto A38, which disrupts the 21.
 

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The fact the A1 has a change in April suggests to me that first have retained it.....

at a guess if this is the case i would expect them to also have the new weston flyer which i guess the A2 in its current forms days are numbered.
 
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Looks like the changes are up on Traveline for Bristol - it shows quite a few timetables finishing on 1/4/17, with no 2/4/17 timetables yet.
 

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