The timings really miss the point. If I'm waiting for a bus in Tunley which is 15 mins late, getting cold and wet, am I bothered that the bus has 20 mins layover?
I wonder if they are relying on the fact that inbound journeys are set down only & call on request only at Imperial Park (to Bristol) / Odd Down (to Bath) and all subsequent stops except the termini.
The bit in to Bristol makes some sense as you can miss parts of that out and save some time. The Bath end, less so. It will only have been registered this way to please WECA that it won't represent a commercial threat to anything else.
If they’re anticipating that they’ll halve the time between IP and Temple Meads compared with their existing P1/X91 by not picking up at a few stops… well that’s optimistic.
I never had much call to go via Timsbury then but do now. It’s a right hassle getting through esp near the Coop.
Small correction in that the electric buses that arrived en-mass are Yutong and not BYD.
You’d be bothered if it hadn’t and that 15 minutes was imported from the previous run because of a 2 minute turnaround time.
Ah, I thought the brand used in Bristol was BYD-owned, couldn't remember the name Yutong and lazily typed BYD
Surely the best approach is to have realistic running times?
Today I saw one of these going inbound along City Road showing 'Driver Training' and just after that a scruffy Eurocoaches minibus on the current 25 service, which I later caught coming back.
Indeed - and generous layovers (for both vehicle and driver) to allow for the unforeseen. Neither seem to be in First’s vocabulary.
And the 8 will be every 10 mins, doing an anticlock loop around Temple Gate and Avon St, and operating via Broadweir instead of the Horsefair.
I suppose the increase in frequency of the 8 will cover the 5 and 77 moving to term time only, but interesting to see what happens in St Anne's if the 5 does go term time...
Oh great, making an already busy throughfare even busier, that'll end well(!)
Routing all buses away from Broadmead so they can make it into one long cycle lane.
I personally don't believe they have at any stage.
Small correction, the phrase is en masse, a final 'e', no hyphen.
Update:
Marlborough Street has not been updated on BODS yet which is why the 16 is yet to be updated. The 8 and 16 will both use a new bus exclusive junction to turn towards Old Market from Avon Street.
It's being done over the summer hence why Avon Street is being closed for a while until September 1st.
Yes, it is crazy but it does
It’s already done, the only works which need doing are on Avon Street which start next week
