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Birmingham's Outer Circle broken
| 题名： | Birmingham's Outer Circle broken |
| 正文语种： | eng |
| 摘要： | National Express West Midlands has taken the radical decision to split Birmingham's Outer Circle bus route in two, to counteract the effects of delays from long term roadworks. The Outer Circle service has been maintained since April 1926 and is one of the longest urban bus routes in Europe. From July 4, an eastern section will link Acocks Green and Perry Barr via Erdington, while a western section will run from Acocks Green to Perry Barr, then overlapping with the eastern section to reach Erdington. Buses will retain the 11A and 11C route numbers, for anti-clockwise and clockwise respectively, even though they will not be operating the full route. Passengers transferring between the two halves can do so on a single ticket, as long as it is within one hour of purchase. Those using the ticketless contactless facility will have to tap in on the second bus, but will not be charged again. The company told its staff: "We have recently added several extra buses to the route and changed the timetable to try to make things better but it is difficult to resolve all of the problems because the delays are different each day." The statement explained that splitting the route "means that we can add in layover time at both ends of the route to help buses recover from delays more easily." In a recent presentation to the Omnibus Society, NXWM managing director David Bradford revealed that the 26 mile long service's peak hour journey times of 3hr04m had fallen to 2hr16m during the Covid pandemic. He pointed out that even this was slower than the 2hrO6m that Sir Mo Farah had taken to run a marathon of the same length. |
| 出版年： | 2021 |
| 期刊名称： | Buses |
| 卷： | 73 |
| 期： | 797 |
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