Very true. I would say the mickelover would be better at every 10 min which would take a quarter (2 of 8) of the buses off the road. It also has the villager running along most of its route. I think they rushed on some routes but not others as most of the sixes is still reduced and other routes like the black cat, 90, 141 are still around two hourly while most other routes are now at full timetables during the day.
And what about the Allestree ? Frequency at the moment is a joke - every 15 mins would probably be best
Whilst I would agree that it maybe need a increase looking at the 'when to catch my bus' PDF it looks like the allestree is fairly empty for most of the day.
Well usage was certainly into double figures when I went on it a couple of weeks ago (Midday on a Saturday)
If only Trent Barton had double deckers, there’d be plenty of room to socially distance...
I don't understand why Calverton's busiest time is 6-7 am!
Depends how they are timing the data - if its the time of boarding then that includes the 727 and 744 arrivals in Nottingham in terms of people boarding anywhere in Calverton on the first of those and at the terminus on other; the next does not arrive until 759. Then again they may be relating the time in table to that of the original departure so counting all passengers joining after 7 because the working started earlier.
That makes sense. But you could also say the same thing about timing of the evening buses?
The AM peak is usually more condensed; you have a lot of people who start work at 8am but finish at varying times.
Not to mention you have the morning peak traffic mixed in with school movements, whereas on an afternoon those are split with schools finishing 3-4pm and evening peak anywhere from 1630-1830.
It was only given a few months to build its usage. Very few new routes carry lots of passengers from day 1.
My guess with the current pandemic going on they couldn't justify the losses while passenger numbers build up - never say never to it coming back but I don't think it will be for a while!
I can agree with, just explaining that the Nottingham end will inevitably be quiet after only 3 months of service.
It was a shame that the X1 wasn’t bolted onto the X17 Sheffield - Chesterfield limited stop, it would have offered through journeys to Sheffield and Meadowhall from south Chesterfield and Clay Cross etc
I can’t see any of the above services being reinstated, these cuts probably save around 6 peak hour vehicles, so potentially an annual operating saving of close on £1m
You would have to link onto the Barnsley X17 trips so you would be looking at like a 3 hour 20 trip end to end. Even Sheffield to Nottingham though, you would be looking at 2h 10. That is one very long journey.
I could see some potential like the 55 and X17 (purely for an example) but not onwards to Nottingham simply because of the journey time. Stagecoach try to not go over 2 hours normally for an end to end journey (Some exceptions of course)
If that was true, nobody from Nottingham would get to Meadowhall as you go right past the outlet on the M1 to get there.
How many people actually make the journey. Then take about 5% of that who are willing to make the journey by bus taking over 2 hours (compared to around 1 hour by train). Do you really think a bus is going to make much (if any) money on that journey?
