This latest post on the the TfWM website from Friday 3 January is hopefully definitive. Please note that the route into Coventry city centre is confirmed as via Hearsall Common and Spon End both ways and not via Earlsdon Street and Albany Road. In the City centre, the route will be via St John’s Church …
Category: Transport
BUS NEWS – ROUTE 188
ECHO previously reported, based on information on the Transport for West Midlands website, that from 5 January, NX Coventry service 2, Stagecoach Solihull to Balsall Common service 88 and Landflight Solihull to Knowle bus A3 will all be withdrawn and a new hourly Stagecoach service 188, Coventry to Solihull will be introduced. This route was …
BUS NEWS
National Express Coventry will increase single journey bus fares on 5 January 2025, from £2 to £2.90. This coincides with the increase in the government’s cap from £2 to £3 for a single ticket on 1 January. Other prices are unaffected. Also from 5 January, NX Coventry service 2, Stagecoach Solihull to Balsall Common service …
11 Bus Stop Suspended
The number 11 bus service through Earlsdon is now being disrupted. This is the bus stop outside the library which was suspended earlier this week and, a reader has suggested, could remain closed until the school goes back after the summer holidays. Hopefully it won’t be that long. There is a temporary stop outside Taylor’s …
BUS ROUTE CHANGES
The no. 51 bus routes (Stagecoach Monday-Saturday. and NX Sundays only) are being re-routed permanently away from Glendower Avenue. Heading towards Earlsdon, from the traffic lights on Allesley Old Road, they will travel along Brookside Avenue then into Wildcroft Road, up to the lights on Broad Lane. They will then turn left along Broad Lane …
Updated Liveable Neighbourhood Proposals
The City Council project team have reviewed the previous proposals in the light of pubic feedback. https://letstalk.coventry.gov.uk/elnproposals?fbclid=IwAR2jhJ8Kliln-FVbFLXIikzdb7C2YNEz9RgZJo2XjKHbggXkjlzskAbhfOg
Liveable Neighbourhood Meeting Arranged
BUS CHANGES FROM SUNDAY 5 NOVEMBER
This is ECHO’s understanding of the imminent changes to bus services in the area but if anyone knows different please let us know. These changes affect both National Express Coventry (NX) and Stagecoach services. The Albany Road/Earlsdon Street route is currently served by a combined service 2 / service 51 half-hourly service on weekdays and …
EARLSDON LIVEABLE NEIGHBOURHOOD PROJECT – OPINION
ECHO has received two ‘Opinion’ contributions about this project. These are both the personal views of the respective writers, not ECHO’s. The first is an extract of the detail from a recent communication which former councillor Nigel Lee sent to the Project’s lead officer, Bryn Lewis. It seems that all the assessment work has been …
Earlsdon Liveable Neighbourhood
At a public, but privately organised meeting on 8 October, it was decided to post a petition with the City Council to pause the consultation until such time as it can be looked at in greater detail, and that everyone is informed of the ramifications of this scheme as it currently stands. The petition is …