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Both a nimrod citaro and a spare bus on the 144/A this evening. What is the point of spending all the extra money on route specific refurbisment, marketing and special liveries if they don't keep to their routes! :shock: Also First better get their act together before the Birmingham CAZ comes in oth...

Maybe the greens now they have more control at the city council might consider it a good idea to put forward a ‘green agenda’ for Worcester and stop it from being a dumping ground for dirty buses! Oh and more importantly generally see what can be done to sort out the city’s transport system both in ...

Maybe we can have some nice bendi-bus Citaros :lol: First York P+R have some and I believe they’re due to be getting more all-electric buses for the P+R services? http://ukbuses.co.uk/fleet/fwy.pdf Seriously though, I’ve not been in Worcester long enough to know if FMR are treated as a bit of a poor...

Latest rumour is that more StreetLites are going, this time to Leicester in time for the start of the Leicester Low Emissions regulations. Any one got any idea what we’re likely to be sent/left with in return? I realise for some that more streetlites going isn’t bad news! One of those situations wh...

I like that livery, although the white won't stay that way for long! 20613 has transferred to First Aberdeen - and it has already been painted! Shame ours hasn't yet! :( https://www.flickr.com/photos/william-walker/40512754663/in/photolist-24HYsw4-T9fM7s-2aRA8N7-2aRAh7m-2cweiTG-QLojiu-2a3hZj4-P53dFA...

Has this vehicle been long term off the road or just not been on the 144 for a long time? Not seen for a while but just spotted on 144a service in Drotwich. Pleased to see it will around as nice livery. If it has been off the road I'm sure DD12 will be pleased to hear it's back!

The number of posts about incorrect vehicle identities suggests a serious flaw in the current tracking - that it appears ticket machines regularly appear to not be fully reprogrammed after being moved! It would seem logical that management would have this as an important task when a change was made ...

Is it possible that this glitch is a driver programming the ticket machine early for their 144 return journey or maybe this isn’t possible, I know nothing about how the machines work and what restrictions on journey choice/timing they may have, just a theory!

47519 SN64 CFY and 47520 SN64 CFZ seen this morning on M6 at J10 presumably bound for Stoke.

I've noticed that there is almost daily (for over a week), a spare bus on a 144A running card in the early evening. I wonder anyone pointed out to the despatchers/management that a spare bus fails to be such if it is regularly rostered. There again, maybe it just occoured that an off route/spare bus...