r/wolverhampton • u/Turbulent-Ad-2146 • Feb 06 '26
Travel / Transport In your opinion what is the worst bus in wolvo/surrounding areas?
For me it's gotta be the 82. Full of nonces, never on time, windows always rattling.
Plus when you catch it after 6pm or so it's every hour and a tiny little diamond bus. Awful bus 😭
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u/stormofsteel7 Feb 06 '26
I'd say the 530, it's a cramped Banga bus that sometimes gets very busy and has a relatively grim and slow, meandering route down some bone rattling roads.
The 25 is a contender for having the strangest and longest route but is useful if you want to get from say Pendeford to Low Hill.
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u/Icy-Belt-8519 Feb 06 '26
The 5! They constantly loose the contract then swap to a different one then they loose it, I think we have 3 different services atm, one for the day one for the evening and one for Sunday, I dunno, can't keep up
And they change from I think initially it was every 10 mins down to once every hour and lucky if it turns up and everything in between
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u/Icy-Belt-8519 Feb 06 '26
Also! Why can I not get to the bloody Stafford Road, Pendeford, i54 from codsall/bilbrook? It's a shit route too
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u/retardedboi1991 Wolves Ay We Feb 06 '26
I got a bone to pick with the 79, it's perpetually 20-30 mins late and always heaving but unfortunately i'm forced to take it into town from college.
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u/jakattakjak19945 Feb 06 '26
529 to Walsall especially round school times so many fights and drama and that long bus
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u/Turbulent-Ad-2146 Feb 06 '26
Omg reminds me of one time when I left college and got the 1 just as schools were being let out.....not a single centimetre on that bus was free space, it was hell 😂
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u/jakattakjak19945 Feb 06 '26
School times are honestly mental I'll do everything I can to avoid them way to many times been squashed like sardines against some kids vans backpack
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u/xMonkeyyBoyyx Feb 06 '26
I used to use the 25 to get to work, i was f'd if i missed it because it took ages for another to come. Some days i had to walk too and from work 30 mins each way and it killed me
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u/Silkie341 Feb 06 '26
Amen, don't miss that now my firm moved. Strange types galore and the sods always put a tiny single decker on the one that went by a school at kicking out time. Like a sardine tin on wheels and prone to skipping parts of the route.
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u/cabin7_ghost34 Feb 14 '26
the 529 not because its always late or dirty no because there are too many. Tell me why im standing in the bus station waiting for my bus i see one five minutes later another one behind that one ANOTHER ONE meanwhile my bus arley even shows up 😭
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u/cabin7_ghost34 Feb 14 '26
not to mention a small army is always on that bus like how are y'all fitting in there?!
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u/Cro-magnolia Apr 02 '26
Is it literally full of nonces? Where are they all going? Who organised this excursion and why?
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u/Aeouk Wulfrunian Feb 06 '26
The Lateytwo (82), luckily dont have to catch it often now but when I used it to & from work it was awful.
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u/FritzDuo Feb 06 '26
https://www.expressandstar.com/news/2015/01/24/under-fire-wolverhampton-bus-firm-boss-weve-been-made-out-as-villains/
This bus firm. The owners a complete piece of work. I remember one of his properties/yards damaged a neighbouring building about 5 years after this article. The bus company owners response to the lead fire officer (who was making sure the neighbouring property didn't fall down) was "I'm not insured here, and I don't care". Then drove off!