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Marcus Fryer
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Presumably not as 'electricity'!
I see part of the bus station at UWE is being dug up. Could this be for installing a charging point? About a week ago got a short ride on 39191 to UWE (not over the 'air quality' section), and there was an articulated lorry parked up in the east layby.
Romney Avenue bus link still blocked last Sunday!
No bus stops on Long Down Avenue, so can't tell whether the 72 will approach Danby St from the east or west once it starts using the link.
TheGrandWazoo
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Pic of 39192 parked on UWE charging plate on Steve White's site
Hengrove?
TheGrandWazoo
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I'm guessing Hilsea
If so he should come drive the ones at LH. Terrible.
TheGrandWazoo
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Assuming he's a Hilsea driver, he's got 40 odd of them to drive both standard and Max versions
Class 33
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Managed to get a ride on the Enviro 400 VE on the 72 earlier. I saw it in Union Street just going round to terminate round the corner, and thought ah I'll get a ride on that home to Redland in just a mo! Nice bus, comfortable seating, nice engine sound! Not surprisingly though that despite this being a bus built with dual doors, the middle door is NOT used as an exit door but is used as an emergency exit door! I did think it would be too good to be true for dual door buses to be back in use in Bristol again after many years!(with exception to those bendy buses on the Park & Ride services) Still, nice buses though!
Maybe as its new technology they don't want to put it on a money making commercial route incase it breaks down? probably not the reason tho
matt_splat
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isn't it on the 72 because first are working with the uwe to analyse the use of the bus? so i'd expect the 72 is the most suitable uwe service for it to run on
Class 33
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Think there's only going to be just one double decker on the 72, the others all single deckers.
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TheGrandWazoo
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There's two Elec ones but also a rebranded Streetdeck reportedly.
JamesGoldsmith
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Noticed one of the pink street decks with revised fleet names. Gone is the 'Bristol 2015 Green Capital', replaced by.. The same Bristol logo sans the 2015 green capital tagline. All slightly bigger. Looked smart.
Seen a picture of the street deck, its legit.
ValleyLines142
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Indeed, it's 35116.
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DaveHarries
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Wrightbus vehicles, or ADL?
If ADL then Bristol are getting, I think, 12x Enviro400 MMC as a result of First regaining Park & Ride services 902 & 904 from CTPlus while 8 are going to Bath for the uni route there. Meanwhile First Kernow are getting 30x Enviro400 MMC which, it is being guessed, will be split between Falmouth routes U1 - U3 and the 14/18.
Dave
45 of the whole order are ADL Enviro 400 double decker (exact spec to be confirmed) and that may be the gas buses but this is unknown at the moment, 20 are for P&R and bath Uni so the other three are streetdecks?
Looks like all the new buses are DDs for Bristol then.
TheGrandWazoo
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I understand that the Kernow split is confirmed not guessed.
Martin2012
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A couple of weeks ago I rode on the 72 between College Green and UWE and a standard decker was being used.
THarris123
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Just a little thought on the new order:
We have 30 W reg deckers
We have 23 (?) 51 reg deckers
The order we have for WoE is:
12 non replacement deckers for P&R
45 replacement deckers
8 replacement deckers in Bath
3 extra deckers
If my thoughts and calculations are right, are we going to see all the 51 reg ALXs and W reg vehicles go?
We have 30 W reg deckers
We have 23 (?) 51 reg deckers
The order we have for WoE is:
12 non replacement deckers for P&R
45 replacement deckers
8 replacement deckers in Bath
3 extra deckers
If my thoughts and calculations are right, are we going to see all the 51 reg ALXs and W reg vehicles go?
TheGrandWazoo
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There are 33 W reg deckers - 22 native B7TLs, 3 ex Bradford B7TLs and 8 Tridents.
The W regs will probably go as PSVAR non compliant. As for the ex Leicester fleet, that may be trickier to foretell. Could easily see some mid life vehicles cascaded out of Bristol?
Robertj21a
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If the W-reg are not DDA-compliant then they have to go anyway by 31/12.
Whiteway215
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Some observations in Bath lunchtime today.
The 5 had the usual offering of 663xx plus 66884.
The 10 (what was that about bigger buses?) 42904 53808/14/17 53204.
Of the 19 Solos I reckon are on the Bath allocation I saw 16. I did not observe 53809/11/19. 57000 didn't put in an appearance either.
On the 13 the normal 4452x plus 42968 (driver recruitment posters removed)
However the downside (?) was that 44914 and our old friend 44915 also appeared on the 13.
Faresaver are now running their X31 and X72 from Bay 6 in the bus station.
A senior member of staff stated 62238/42 are delicenced at the depot and confirmed modified 63068 is back, having been away since August 2015.
TheGrandWazoo
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Bit of enviro quality - perhaps improved after some TLC at WSM
I had suggested that the B10BLEs might go though I did think they may have lasted a couple more weeks. Are the Dorset Solars still around?