THE BLOXIDGE TALLYGRAPH

I SEE that NATIONAL EXPRESS WEST MIDLANDS has lashed out £3 MILLION on a NEW FLEET OF BUSES which includes the 301 ROUTE between Walsall and MOSSLEY Estate via BLOXWICH. GOOD NEWS for residents of North WALSALL, central Bloxwich and MOSSLEY then!

 

NOT SO GOOD news for the poor folk of LOWER FARM ESTATE who sometimes STRUGGLE to get a bus in any reasonable time OUTSIDE PEAK TIMES, though. Their "SERVICE" has been GOING DOWNHILL since the TROLLEY BUSES stopped running in 1971!  NO NEW BUSES for LOWER FARM and an OFF-PEAK TIMETABLE that can easily be described as FANTASY at best?

 

ALL the more PEEVING FOR 'FARM FOLK who sometimes have to WAIT outside the old Music Hall in HIGH STREET for up to HALF AN HOUR at a time to get a 302 BUS back home while watching SEVEN OR EIGHT 301s ROLLING PAST down Wolverhampton Rd, MANY no more than 10% FULL.

 

NOT MUCH CONSOLATION either for WORKERS trying to get on a 302 from WALSALL which is usually CRAMMED FULL of denizens of NORTH WALSALL at peak times! NOR for those who have to CHANGE BUSES in Bloxwich of an EVENING or SUNDAY if they want to travel FROM LOWER FARM via the High Street, LEAMORE or North Walsall. But AT LEAST they will get the chance to RIDE ON A LUXURY 301...  HOW KIND!

 

Isn't it WELL PAST TIME that the PUBLIC TRANSPORT-MINDED folk of LOWER FARM had a decent and REGULAR OFF-PEAK bus service with a SENSIBLE evening and Sunday ROUTE?  THE FORRENER says YES!

 

Remember - I am watching...     The Forrener