(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.
I’ll just point out that the bus lane on the A167 to Cowgate is a solid white line you cannot cross the solid white line. When I drive the fastline services I will just sit in the traffic in the right lane. If you were to use the bus lane you technically have to stay in it until it ends which is after the bus stop for the 62/71/72/87 which by then it’s practically impossible to get over. So that’s why most of the buses don’t use it, they need to rethink it.