Come back on here briefly to have a little guess/discussion about the 77 gas buses. I'm trying to work out exactly what all these buses will be used on and how they will change the fleet, so my little guess is as follows.
M3 - 10 gas buses. Replace 36801-6 to Hengrove to be used on M2 (they have Metrobus seat covers), 36808-13 Hengrove-Marlborough St in South Glos Lynx livery, 36821 LH-MH in South Glos Lynx. Scanias then replace 7 B7RLEs at LH/MH
42-45 - 26 gas buses. Possibly renumbering the east Bristol services to E1-E5?? 37607, 37611-32 to Bath, replacing the majority of the older fleet in Bath.
48-49 - 21 gas buses. Possibly renumbering these to F1-F3 (Fishponds)?? E400s move to Hengrove for 24. 54 reg B7TLs move Hengrove-Camborne
17 - 5 gas buses. Replace 37007, 37011-14 to Camborne, or possibly Essex
6/7 - 10 gas buses. Possibly renumbered E6/E7 to fit in with east Bristol?? Replace 32251-59 (withdrawn)
36 - 3 gas buses. Yes ok, might be incredibly unlikely, but I think it might be branded into the east Bristol network. 3 53 reg B7TLs withdrawn as a result.
The remainder of gas buses then spare (3)
Bearing in mind that the majority of Bristol services need to have an upgrade in fleet to meet with the diesel ban/clean air zone, I wonder what will happen with the other services. Might Hengrove get a batch of hybrid/electric buses for some of their services?? What will LH do with their remaining services - 1/2/3/4 and 73? What will MH do with the South Glos network - terminate them outside of the zone and continue using the scanias??
All food for thought and all guesswork - although its been already confirmed that gas buses due for Metrobus and east Bristol network
In terms of January changes in Bristol, here's my best guess:
1/2 - timetable changes, possible frequency reduction on part of 2 and short trips introduced?
19/A - major overhaul of services, possibly even handing them over to Stagecoach?
24/A - 24A withdrawn and the original route idea of 24 introduced
42-45 - major network overhaul. Possibly renumbering to create a brand, all for the introduction of the gas buses.
70/71 - frequency reduction - both every 20 mins (every 10 along common sections) or 71 decreases frequency and 70 increases??
75/76 - frequency reduction - every 20 mins both running again to Cribbs
90 - route change and possible frequency increase - there must be a reason why so many extra Streetdecks are being painted in 90 livery - requirement is 7, but there's now 11 in 90 livery
A1/A2 - timetable changes
M1/2 - timetable changes
M3 - increase - 10 gas buses compared to current allocation of 7
Other services changing:
Bath:
1 - timetable changes
2 - frequency reduction
6/7/8 - all frequency reduction
11/12 - timetable changes
9 - timetable changes
Wells:
172 - changes as previous post
126 - timetable changes
Weston:
X3/X4 - reduction
X9 - reduction
X1/X2/X6/X7/X8 - timetable changes
W3 and W7 - timetable changes
Just to point out all of this is pure guesswork, well apart from 172