{"id":214,"date":"2008-03-16T13:49:34","date_gmt":"2008-03-16T12:49:34","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-03-16T13:49:34","modified_gmt":"2008-03-16T12:49:34","slug":"birmingham-buses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/?p=214","title":{"rendered":"Birmingham buses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Birmingham Megabus stop is in The Priory Queensway.  Every time I arrive there I&#8217;m amazed at the number of buses which use this stretch of road.  On Friday I arrived early so got myself a cup of coffee and then counted buses :-(  But only for ten minutes which saw 35 buses pass me, this equates to 210 buses per hour.  It was around 11:00am on a weekday morning, I wondered if there would more per hour during peak times?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/images\/uploads\/busesinbrum.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" name=\"image\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>The vast majority of buses were Travel West Midlands, followed by Diamond Bus and then Claribels.  It has always been apparent to me that there is a fourth operator but I can&#8217;t identify them.  The buses don&#8217;t have either a name or a livery style\/colour!  The common factor to the buses of this fourth operator are that they are old and look very tatty!  Then, on Friday a bus appeared which met the criteria of belonging to this fourth operator, execpt it carried a name &#8211; Midland Rider.  Is this a fifth operator?  Or, is that the name of the fourth operator?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Birmingham Megabus stop is in The Priory Queensway. Every time I arrive there I&#8217;m amazed at the number of buses which use this stretch of road. On Friday I arrived early so got myself a cup of coffee and then counted buses :-( But only for ten minutes which saw 35 buses pass me, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}