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The 67 is good bus territory, one of the best bus routes in Birmingham, the appropriately named Steven Rhodes, Bus and Highway Director for Centro, told his audience at the Castle Vale Neighbourhood Partnership meeting.

Mr Rhodes outlined Centro’s ambitious proposals for improving bus services across the West Midlands. These include improving punctuality, more frequent evening and Sunday services, better  air-ventilation, introducing high-back seats, leather seats, tinted salon-windows, improved spacing, and regular in-bus cleaning, and a passenger charter offering money back in the event of poor services. He said that at the moment, if an empty can of drink is rolling around a bus floor at 9a.m., it’s still likely to be doing the same thing six hours later. Centro aims to make sure that all buses are cleaned during their journeys.

One million people travel daily on buses across the region, but the number of bus users has declined each year for the past ten years.

In a test study of six bus routes around the region where many of these improvements have been tried out, there has been an 8-14% increase in passengers.

When a member of the audience asked Mr Rhodes how he got from his City Centre Office to Castle Vale High Street to make his presentation, the audience held its breath.

“By bus, of course, ” he smiled.

 

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