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Arriva Tamworth, I don’t think they’ve had a new bus since the 44XX E400 were new in 2014. Probably likewise Arriva Shrewsbury/Telford. It seems all new buses go into Leicester at Arriva Midlands.

H1006/7/8/9 were used for the first time in months today on morning/afternoon peak boards. The City - Tyseley dead runs during the day used to be on the running board before they stopped using them.

Birmingham. When you scan it, it should say concessionary accepted or words to that effect? So not sure how it came to that. Which route was this on? I don’t think you can get an info ticket. Just the fleet number and note the time would have done.

National Express West Midlands might still have them? I don’t think it was that long ago I saw someone use one. Drivers used to tell people you have to scratch the date off.

Some routes in some places like the 74, 82 & 87 in Birmingham operated by West Bromwich seem to be busy at all hours of the operating day. Even on a Sunday night. I think passengers numbers on most routes/journeys probably vary day to day as well ?

I think all services at Birmingham Central now have next stop announcements where the equipment is working on newer platinum vehicles. Including the 14 & 94/95.

Max fare £2.40. Apparently TFWM raised the uncapped max fare to £2.70 and then again to £2.90 while fares were capped at £2.

Concession passes definitely work in the West Midlands area from 09:30 on Friday morning through to 23:59 on the Sunday night. So you could use it on the 01:01 63 on Saturdays and Sundays for example.

Worcestershire Redditch Garage will be running a full normal Sunday service tomorrow including the Sunday service contract on the 52 Kidderminster - Redditch via Bromsgrove and 3 Kidderminster - Areley Kings via Stourport. Boxing Day only the local Redditch services 11/51/57/58 ran which were...

National Express running a similar Sunday service on Boxing Day and New Years Day with some slight diffrences. Shut down slightly earlier than normal on some WM routes as well e.g the 14 last trip leaves Birmingham at 22:47 instead of 00:07 on the 26th and 1st. We had an early shut down on West...

“Non-folded cycles cannot be taken on buses and trams.” This tends to be the policy for most UK bus operators. https://tfl.gov.uk/modes/cycling/cycles-on-public-transport

As well as the 14/94/95 in Birmingham which I travel on everyday. I also travel regularly on the 3/8/15 in Kidderminster. And I’ve never noticed much of a difference in boarding times there. The 3 can get busy at times, often I see B7RLEs with full loads A lot of cash payers just put a simple...

So pressing the button on the Init/ticketer machine that normally seems to takes a fracture of a second? What do you mean by they should get their own house in order? In terms of traffic congestion & roadworks/temporary lights, you could be getting of delays of 15-20+ minutes in it in some...

£5 note for a day ticket ready and put in the fare box, or handed to the driver could probably be quicker than someone coming on and spending ages trying to scan a QR code from what I’ve seen. I don’t think there needs to be a premium fare for different methods of payment. The main thing I see...

Stagecoach Stratford on Avon one is £16.50 for the day. £14.50 concession. Quite a hefty price.