Seeing the X76 in the city centre today, the slogan on the rear end 'Remember when you loved buses?' sitting uncomfortably above the dot matrix display's 'OUT OF SERVICE' reminded me of its weird stopping patterns (someone on this forum kindly explained the reason for that). It wasn't out of service and actually had one passenger aboard, but it's difficult for the ordinary passenger to tell that this bus is peculiar - for the stops that it misses, the timetables at the stops list it, as do the electronic passenger information screens. The bustimes web site, though, does know about its funny ways.

At the moment, given that the city's bus services are cut in half, even its single in-and-back trip would be useful to people using the bus in Bath and needing to get to or from the RUH, restrictions like this put me in mind of the UK canal systems' "Worcester Bar" (where the waters of the Birmingham canals and Worcester and Birmingham route were separated by a physical bar, forcing all cargoes to be transhipped before, eventually, commonsense prevailed.)

Mark


https://bustimes.org/services/x76-marlborough-ruh-bath-2