Recent content by Lucy Michela

Is there any confirmation on whether Diagram 2 tomorrow is going to be a 67 set? Hoping to get one on the 08:30 off Manchester Piccadilly, and am hopeful 67015 went down to do that Diagram for tomorrow.

The vehicles that Bee Network routes are decided by TfGM. They include it in the contract for them, I did get sent some photos of Tranche 1 routes when speculation as to what would do what route was rife. It's why you almost never see Bee Network routes with random fleets, and those that you do...

There's already been service increases across the network. The 100 has an additional bus an hour to The Trafford Centre, and has a much better timetable. In fact, I had one to Warrington on Saturday. We left 24 mins late, and ended up in Warrington 4 mins early! But yeah, every month or two, I...

Anyone who's ever experienced the latter would take a bike over one, but I really wish I had the time to ride those B10s before they go

Anyone have an update on these Streetlites? Been 'in for repaint' for two months now and still not out. Bearing in mind this is the same fleet of the type that Rochdale drivers were getting sick of because they kept breaking down. Really annoys me they're replacing what are seemingly...

I think that Stagecoach may well consider an attempt at de-railing things, but they have a good relationship with ComfortDelGro in general - bare in mind, the two companies run the Megabus and Citylink operations together. If anything, Stagecoach may just loan stuff to Metroline, but if they...

Tbh, not anymore. Forgot where I saw it. But, it wouldn't be too hard to pull off, and explains their repaint choices into Yellow. They only did a few Tridents, and if the depots are now running short of buses, that would be a good reason they did a handful of those. But the whole network...

I can see potential of the older MMCs moving to Metroline as a sale. I know the 64s moving to Stagecoach East Mids was cancelled after the company order for Hull took their place of being needed there. However, these are now likely to become the schools fleet. If this is true, there are still...

Stagecoach did state they plan for their finalised Bee fleet to be nothing older than 2017 built, so I believe the SN17s currently based with the normal operation will join 10859 to replace at least one temporary fleet. I think the B5s were to cover an order shortfall, whilst the B9s and Omnis...

There was a couple of sources, including one who I believe worked for them, who stated Transdev had no intention of bidding. It's not that they don't like contract work, they just don't like running a franchised service. It's totally understandable. Arriva didn't bid because they want to focus...

So what buses are tracking as 49901 (I say buses, as yesterday the supposed 49901 did 487s, 53s and 149s, which is obviously two or three buses not one)

I've seen their response and it seems that if so, the team in charge aren't too well focused on the E200MMCs

I think that the destination issue will always be an issue in a new franchise system where they didn't think that through. Because the only real offensive to the eye cases by 2022 was Vision doing the 480 displays with all caps too, TfGM probably didn't even consider it. In London, they have a...

Transdev didn't bid. The business of Transdev has been rather anti-franchising for years, with them selling their London ops to RATP in 2014. From what I understand, it doesn't suit their way of operating the business 1711923481 I'm almost 100% certain part of the delay to announcement of T3...

It was confirmed somewhere that the BZLs for Stockport would be sent there regardless of the winner in Bee Network, as TfGM put quite a big chunk towards them through ZEBRA funding, Stagecoach just agreed to pay for a portion of the order (something like 20/30%) 1711923614 I do believe the B9s...