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RE: First West & North Yorkshire

(12/08/2012 20:17)Wright Eclipse Wrote:  

(12/08/2012 20:03)Metroline1511 Wrote:  When I was at ExCel yesterday, the security guy at the Park & Ride stop confirmed I couldn't ride the buses. However, he did say the new 12-reg Volvo B9TLs "will be in Leeds before long anyway". Maybe they are destined for route 4 and to enable more Olympians to be withdrawn, or even B7TLs to be cascaded elsewhere?

Service 4 Is getting Ex-Olympic buses (even though nobody knows what type),FTRs are going onto 72,72 B9TLs are going onto service 617/8 & 607,Volvo B7Ls are ment to be going elsewere

In Other News,Service 363 Is to be renumberd X63,Following X6 Route but using all stops (in other words - following current 363 But missing Out Odsal Top)

Have to say I was puzzled a little with the re-numbering of the 363 to X63. Wondered whether it would have been better just to re-route the 363 not to stop on the slip roads at Odsal Top and kept all journeys as a 363, as Odsal Top would still be served by the 622/623/626.

The re-timing of the 363/X63 is a good move though, as it now gives a more even spacing between the X6 and X63, as there will be a departure from Huddersfield or Bradford every 10 mins (08, 18, 28, 38, 48, 58 from Hudds, 00, 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 from Bradford).

Another major change next month is in Pudsey. 14 Monday-Saturday daytime service is replaced by new circular X14/X15 services between Leeds and Pudsey (current X14 is withdrawn and additional 5 journeys between Leeds and Halton Moor), with X14 running from Leeds via Swinnow then around Pudsey area (Valley Road and Chapeltown) before heading to Pudsey bus station and back onto Leeds via Stanningley Road. X15 runs reverse. X11 will be curtailed to run between Bradford and Pudsey as the 611.