The X6 and X7 interworking gets a bus and a driver from Weston to Bristol, without dead mileage or a driver travelling on the cushions. It may be true that a lot of the day a Streetlite us sufficient for the X7, but during the peaks the demand between Bristol and Clevedon is high, Nailsea has a combined frequency of every 15 minutes with the X8 and X9 plus the X7, so Streetlites on the X9 seems the logical solution.Perhaps true between Weston and Clevedon!
The old half hourly X6 needed deckers in the peaks. Halving the frequency in favour of having an X7 that takes only slightly longer wasn't likely to have much impact on the Bristol to Clevedon leg so not certain why anyone would think that would change?
There are several Streetlites operating on the X1-X2-X3-X4 everyday at the moment as Weston are short of double deckers. Plans are afoot to bring more in, so this doesn't carry on.
Just a few minor changes only. 174 to serve Dinder and first 173 of the day from Bath is changed to 174, leaving 10 mins earlier.
Wow I really didn't expect the 174 to be re-routed through Dinder. Well done to them, that will certainly please some residents. I still expect to see a few short workings of the 174 at certain times of day, serving Wells and Shepton only, but let's see.
Well the 174 to Shepton on Mon-Fri is earlier and there is one short working on Sat to Shepton and back.
Frome Minibuses.
Thanks for that. They of course were the operators prior to Nippybus, so no surprise really. In a perfect world I would of course like to have seen First retain it with Wells, renumbering it 169 (purely for ocd reasons) but appreciate First have bigger interests.
