21st June apparently
Edinburgh's new tramline from Leith to Newhaven will open in June
It has been revealed that the £207million extension will now be operational by June 21.www.edinburghlive.co.uk
While I would expect a service change at roughly the same time as the Tram extension opens. I wouldn’t expect many changes as a direct result of it opening. As has been said previously the Leith services have largely already been adjusted for this, such as the 10 now serving McDonald Road, the 34 now serving Leith Links and Bernard Street, and the scale back of the 22 to the City Centre with the 16 revised to serve Leith Street in its place.
Maybe the Eclipses are being repainted back into Lothian City livery as there may be adjustments with some revised/new tram feeder services?
74 has the same as well, its not a permanent change its just the laminate on the glass hasn’t been done properly, it’s something that will probably be fixed soon.
During my working life, I have driven buses in both the city and country environments. Both have to negotiate narrow roads, often coupled with bad parking, and have places where you can get up a bit of speed though in the city this is usually where the limit is 40mph or lower whereas in the country 60mph is most common in these "quiet" spots. Spotting the odd intending passenger early enough in the middle of nowhere when doing 45mph plus is a skill you have to learn as soon as you get behind the wheel.Go on, I'll bite...
Pay and conditions is a very emotive subject at our garage.
You could argue the city drivers should be on less as they're not going anywhere sitting in traffic all day. Obviously that's a completely ridiculous suggestion and a bus driver should be paid the same whether the bus is red or green, considering we're all supposed to be part of the "Lothian family."
Indeed, although buses are still diverted at this time.
When I was on it, it was very powerful. I do quite like the looks outside, if the grey was white and black at the bottom then it would be much nicer along with some of the black accessing becoming madder. The Volvo front panel would also have to be replaced with a panel without Volvo on it.
The only reason it was on the 23 (regardless of it being single or double deck) is because all alternative fuel demonstrators get used on that due to its hilly nature - there’s no point trialling it on a relatively flat route to make a substantial purchase and find they aren’t suitable.
Also, my impression is quite a lot of the 23 route is covered by others, it's reasonably frequent and passengers aren't typically going a long distance. Therefore the impact of breakdowns or delays if a test vehicle encounters problems may not be so severe.
Also it makes sense to have one specific route as the test route for demonstrators in order to compare and evaluate various key performance indicators between different vehicle types.
Calculating PVR isn't too complex but it it is quite time consuming as different times of day have different PVR - the way I calculate it is track how long a bus takes to complete a return journey, and count the number of departures in between - e.g. if a vehicle is departing from Riccarton eastbound on a 25, see how long it takes to come back to Riccarton to work another eastbound 25 service, and the number of departures from Riccarton in between those times is the PVR for that time of day.
It's better to wait and see.
There of course are the fair few on twitter complaining that the 22 isn't returning now Leith Walk is reopening...
I can’t see it returning to be honest. They could possibly extend the 22 from Gyle Centre to Cammo or West Craigs once more new homes are built but I can’t see it going back to Leith.
What would they like cut to free up drivers and vehicles?
The demonstrator Lothian have is the shorter 10.8M 31 seater example, however the other single decker demonstrator is full size at 12.2M and seats 42. Additionally the single deck chassis is offered up to lengths of 13 metres so it would be possible to get examples with same/similar seat capacity to Lothians existing fleet of Evoras, although due to weight restrictions the number of standees would likely be lower. However as all lengths are mechanically the same it probably didn't matter (that much) to Lothian which one they had on demonstration so likely just took the 10.8M example since it it's available sooner.
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I think it will be either 401 or 569. I think it's most likely going to be one of those two, I would like it to be 569 though.
Did you miss the accident damage?
With the tram extension one has to question what point the 22 actually has going forward. Surely it's better to axe the route entirely and redistribute resources to where they can be better utilised?
It operates now with fair loads on each service.. the tram network does not cover for everything along the 22 and is not a suitable alternative to many customers. I'd argue if the 22 would be axed, this would've occurred a long time ago. The 1 & 2 would need improvements capacity wise i'd imagine if it did happen though.
