Hello ladies, hope you're all well.
Can someone confirm at all how many new biogas buses are due for Bristol this year and what routes they'll be allocated to? I've heard it's 39 or 71 or 77 or something along those lines. Any ideas how the original bid has changed and whether the 110 biogas buses that were on the bid will still be turning up? Only the pvr on 17 was higher then, plus there have been other changes.
Anyway changing the subject - Wells - apparently changes are due in April to change 376 (very minor) and 172. From what I understand, 172 will no longer be serving Tesco, but instead do a loop around Farrington Gurney and Hallatrow, to link up with 376. I don't yet completely know how that will work, but should find out soon enough. 126 on Sundays is due to come back in April too, operated by Wells again and I expect it to be every 3 hours again.
In terms of fleet, its all up in the air a bit at the moment. Nobody really knows what's going on, but the latest I've heard is 66720/26/942 are staying with all the 59 plates leaving Wells. Hasn't yet been confirmed where they are going, nor what will replace them.
35147 is due to Wells soon as another spare bus to 376. The Streetdecks have proved to be rather unreliable and since starting to commute to Somerton every day, I've not yet noticed a day when a bus isnt in naughty corner of the depot. Two Streetdecks and 69444 were in naughty corner on Friday evening. 35148 is yet again off the road and since coming back 35166 has become a bit of a pain too. There's at least one loan each week from Bath at the moment, with a mixture of singles and deckers. Today I saw 32343 on 173, so that seems to be the latest. 32280, 63077, 32636 were all in Wells this week at one point. Several Enviros have been in and out working 126 as well.
The next couple of weeks will be fun, as it seems roadworks and road closures are going on which will affect 174 and 376, so look out for plenty of delays.
Report done , Tom