(Yesterday, 6:46 pm)PH - BQA wrote Are we sure this isn't just standard Stagecoach scheduling incompetency? I've never used the 12, but if it is anything like the Stagecoach routes I use on a daily basis then it'll have a wildly optimistic timetable that can only be achieved with a rocket powered bus on the 32nd day of each month.
As an example, not a single evening peak express bus from Eldon Square gets any additional time to get to Cowgate, despite the traffic along the A167 adding 5-10 mins of delays to each trip (even during school holidays). 99% of Stagecoach buses sit in this rather than utilising the empty bus lane to the left hand side - so I'm sceptical of how much they'd actually use these new bus priority measures that they're crying for.
Honestly couldn't tell you to be honest, don't know the route either if I had to be honest to comment on that.
The Cowgate bus lane isn't ideal mind, since they've got to get across multiple lanes in traffic, it's really something that needs looked at - unsure what though to be fair. I guess something like that they did along Killingworth Road would help, and just hold the traffic further back from the lights so the buses get front of the line.
Edit: I wonder if it's company policy that, since none of the buses heading North from Cowgate stop at the bus stop Westbound. Anyone know?