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Travel Coventry (formed on 9 December 2002) is the current trading name for all West Midlands Travel Ltd bus services operating from their depot in Coventry, in the West Midlands (region) region of England. All of West Midlands Travel Ltd other bus depots operate under the name Travel West Midlands - Travel Coventry's previous trading name.

History West Midlands Travel Ltd is owned by National Express Group who also own sister bus operators Travel London and Travel Dundee. The company stems from the 1986 Bus deregulation of the bus industry in England and Wales and evolved out of what was previously the bus operations of the West Midlands Passenger Transport Executive (WMPTE) which originally was the separate operations of the Birmingham, Coventry, Walsall, West Bromwich and Wolverhampton Corporations.

Contact details Travel Coventry depot: 2 Ford St COVENTRY CV1 5WT Telephone: 024 7681 7000

Head office: 51 Bordesley Green BIRMINGHAM B9 4BZ Telephone: 0121 254 7200

Fares Travel Coventry offers two ways to pay for bus travel:

Travel Coventry operates an 'exact fare' policy on board buses, in coins only. Pay on boarding passengers must place their fare amount into a vault situated on the platform near to the drivers cab, who will then issue the relevant ticket. Drivers effectively do not handle cash nor give change, this is for speed and security reasons. If passengers do not have the correct coinage for their fare they can overpay but will not receive any change.

All routes (excluding route 12 within Warwickshire) have a simple single fare system - a journey of no more than 2 fare stages (about 2km) is £1.00 and any distance beyond that is £1.25. Children aged 5 to 15 are eligible for half rate single fares which are respectively 50p and 62p.

Also available is a multitude of day tickets, the most popular being an all day ticket named Coventry Daysaver, one can purchase this on their first Travel Coventry journey and it is valid for unlimited further journeys on any Travel Coventry bus service the same day (including the whole of route 12), priced at £2.50 for an adult, £1.70 for a child.

Senior citizens (aged 60 or over) and disabled persons who are resident in the seven metropolitan boroughs of the former County of West Midlands are eligible for a free concessionary travel pass issued by West Midlands Passenger Transport Executive, it offers free multi-operator bus, rail and tram journeys throughout Coventry and the West Midlands county, weekday journeys must be started no earlier than 9.30am.

Reliability Travel Coventry have been subject to many complaints over the reliability of some of their bus services. Complaints are frequently heard from students who claim that buses routinely just do not turn up when they are expected to.

Travel Coventry has become the target of critics regarding the reliability of certain services in Coventry. After major improvements and refreshment to the Coventry bus network in April 2006 and two months of extensive service monitoring, reliability checks and public feedback Travel Coventry has responded to the findings from these conducts and are making some minor changes in line with this to adjust the services, this will help improve the service quality they provide to their customers. Vehicle types The following table is a summary of the current passenger service fleet which totals 156 vehicles :{| class="wikitable"!Chassis!!width="18%"|Bodywork!!|Quantity!!Seating!!Other Info|-|Optare Solo||7||27-29||"Mini" single deck bus|-|[Volvo B6LE||8||37||"Midi" compact low floor single deck bus|-|[Mercedes-Benz O405N]||Metro Cammell Weymann||26||73|| "Old" step entry double deck bus|-|Dennis Trident 2 or
TransBus ALX400||40||75||Low floor double deck bus -
21 of these have bodywork under the Alexander brand and 19 of these have bodywork under the TransBus brand (different only in name)|-|[Volvo B7TL||10||74||Low floor double deck bus|-|Volvo B7TL||[Wright Eclipse GeminiGN||Mercedes-Benz||10||59|| [Articulated bus (also called a "bendy bus" or "bendibus")|-|Mercedes-Benz O530 Citaro||Mercedes-Benz||10||56|| Articulated single deck bus (also called a "bendy bus" or "bendibus")|}Table footnotes:
  • Four seats in front of stairs on upper deck otherwise similar to Volvo B7TL chassis with Wright Eclipse Gemini bodywork
  • Two seats in front of stairs on upper deck otherwise similar to Volvo B7TL chassis with TransBus ALX400 bodywork


    • Vehicle photographs Image:Bus number 14 5u07.JPG|A Optare Solo single deck bus working on route 14.Image:Bus 801 17u07.JPG|A Volvo B6LE / Wright Crusader single deck bus working on route 801.Image:Coventry travel bus32 27a07.JPG|A Mercedes-Benz O405N single deck bus working on route 32 in Gosford Green, Coventry.Image:Bus route19 18a07.JPG], Coventry.Image:Bus 13A 12u07.JPG|A Dennis Trident 2 / Alexander ALX400 double decker bus working on route 13A.Image:Travel_coventry_no13_26l07.JPG|A Volvo B7TL / Wright Eclipse Gemini working on route 13.Image:Bendybus 21 18s07.JPG|A Mercedes-Benz O405GN articulated bus (or bendy bus) working on route 21.Image:Travel coventry bendibus 13 26l07.JPG|A Mercedes-Benz O530 Citaro bendibus working on route 27.

    Route list Certain routes are showcased and have the "PrimeLines" brand.
    Note : some routes may have routing deviations and/or spurs on certain journeys, part journeys also operate on most routes.{| class="wikitable" border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=4!Route!colspan=2|Terminals!width="38%"|Via!width="22%"|Other info|-!1|Chapelfields|Toll Bar End|Earlsdon Avenue, City Centre and London Road||-!2|City Centre|Fenside|Cheylesmore and Stivichall|Arena Tesco (Longford)|Binley, [Stoke Aldermoor, City Centre and Holbrook Lane], Holbrooks and Lythalls Lane||-!7|City Centre|Brownshill Green|Coundon and Allesley||-!10|Bell Green|Eastern Green||-!11|City Centre|Stonehouse Lane|[Coventry railway station, Cheylesmore, Whitley, Coventry and Willenhall||-!12|Coventry City Centre|Leamington Spa (and Sydenham Estate)], University of Warwick and Kenilworth|Whitmore Park/Prologis Park|Binley Road, City Centre and Radford|Prologis Park (extension) is only served Mon-Fri daytime and Sunday daytime|-!13A|Willenhall|Whitmore Park/Prologis Park|Binley Road, City Centre and Radford|Mon-Fri peak time trips only (serving Binley Industrial Estate)|-!14|City Centre|[Stivichall (Hexworthy Avenue)]/Fenside|Kenilworth Road and Green Lane|Fenside (extension) is only served Mon-Sat 09:30-15:30|-!19|City Centre|Tile Hill South|Earlsdon, Canley railway station, Cannon Park and Canley|Foleshill Road and [Longford, Coventry||-!20A|City Centre|Longford|Foleshill Road||-!21|Wood End, Coventry|Willenhall|Stoney Stanton Road and City Centre||-!21C|Wood End|Willenhall|Stoney Stanton Road, City Centre and Cheylesmore|Mon-Sat early mornings, Mon-Sat evenings and all day Sunday|-!21W|Wood End|Middlemarch Business Park|Stoney Stanton Road and City Centre|Mon-Fri peak time trips only|-!23|City Centre|Allesley Park|Four Pounds Avenue||-!23C|City Centre|Broad Lane|Four Pounds Avenue and Allesley Park|School journeys and Sunday daytime only|-!27|Coventry Station|University Hospital Coventry and Stoke Hill||-!30A|City Centre|Bell Green / [Walsgrave / Lentons Lane Circular]|Hearsall Common, City Centre and Ball Hill||-!32C|Tile Hill Circular|Bell Green|Hearsall Common, City Centre, Ball Hill and Potters Green|Mon-Sat early mornings and Mon-Sun evenings.|-!33|Tile Hill|Bell Green|Hearsall Common, City Centre and Ball Hill||-!34|Tile Hill South|University Hospital Coventry|Broad Lane, City Centre, Binley Road and Clifford Park|Section between Tile Hill South & City Centre only operates Mon-Sat daytime.|-!36|Keresley Village|Little Heath/Arena Tesco (Longford)|Keresley Road, City Centre and Stoke Heath.|Arena Tesco (extension) is only served Mon-Fri 10:00-15:00|-!40|City Centre|Bell Green|Foleshill Road & Windmill Road|Mon-Sat evening and all day Sunday trips extend to Henley Green|-!42|Cannon Park|Coundon|Canley Gardens, Wainbody Avenue and City Centre||-!50|City Centre|Bayton Road|Foleshill Road and Longford|Mon-Fri peak time trips extend to Bedworth|-!58|Tile Hill Wood School|Jubilee Crescent|Tile Hill North, Parkhill Estate, Neale Avenue, Moseley Avenue|Mon-Fri School Service|-!58A|Tile Hill Wood School|Jubilee Crescent|Tile Hill North, Parkhill Estate, Moseley Avenue, Overdale Road, Lammas Road|Mon-Fri School Service|-!60|City Centre|Black Horse Road|Foleshill Road and Longford||-!70|City Centre|Tile Hill South|Hearsall Common|Mon-Fri morning peak time single trip one way|-!75|City Centre|Brownshill Green|Coundon and Allesley Village|Mon-Sat evenings, Sat mornings and all day Sunday|-!81|City Centre|Tile Hill South|Hearsall Common|Mon-Fri peak time trips only|-!81A|Balsall Common|Coventry City Centre|Burton Green, Torrington Avenue and Hearsall Common|Mon-Fri morning peak time single trip one way|-!81E|City Centre|Cannon Park Estate|Hearsall Common, Torrington Avenue and Westwood Heath||-!81W|City Centre|Westwood Business Park|Hearsall Common, Torrington Avenue and Westwood Heath|Mon-Fri peak time trips only|-!801|University of Warwick|University Hospital Coventry|Cheylesmore, Willenhall & Binley|Does not operate before 13:00 on Sundays|-|}

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    Travel Coventry (formed on 9 December 2002) is the current trading name for all West Midlands Travel Ltd bus services operating from their depot in Coventry, in the West Midlands (region) region of England. All of West Midlands Travel Ltd other bus depots operate under the name Travel West Midlands - Travel Coventry's previous trading name.

    History West Midlands Travel Ltd is owned by National Express Group who also own sister bus operators Travel London and Travel Dundee. The company stems from the 1986 Bus deregulation of the bus industry in England and Wales and evolved out of what was previously the bus operations of the West Midlands Passenger Transport Executive (WMPTE) which originally was the separate operations of the Birmingham, Coventry, Walsall, West Bromwich and Wolverhampton Corporations.

    Contact details Travel Coventry depot: 2 Ford St COVENTRY CV1 5WT Telephone: 024 7681 7000

    Head office: 51 Bordesley Green BIRMINGHAM B9 4BZ Telephone: 0121 254 7200

    Fares Travel Coventry offers two ways to pay for bus travel:

    Travel Coventry operates an 'exact fare' policy on board buses, in coins only. Pay on boarding passengers must place their fare amount into a vault situated on the platform near to the drivers cab, who will then issue the relevant ticket. Drivers effectively do not handle cash nor give change, this is for speed and security reasons. If passengers do not have the correct coinage for their fare they can overpay but will not receive any change.

    All routes (excluding route 12 within Warwickshire) have a simple single fare system - a journey of no more than 2 fare stages (about 2km) is £1.00 and any distance beyond that is £1.25. Children aged 5 to 15 are eligible for half rate single fares which are respectively 50p and 62p.

    Also available is a multitude of day tickets, the most popular being an all day ticket named Coventry Daysaver, one can purchase this on their first Travel Coventry journey and it is valid for unlimited further journeys on any Travel Coventry bus service the same day (including the whole of route 12), priced at £2.50 for an adult, £1.70 for a child.

    Senior citizens (aged 60 or over) and disabled persons who are resident in the seven metropolitan boroughs of the former County of West Midlands are eligible for a free concessionary travel pass issued by West Midlands Passenger Transport Executive, it offers free multi-operator bus, rail and tram journeys throughout Coventry and the West Midlands county, weekday journeys must be started no earlier than 9.30am.

    Reliability Travel Coventry have been subject to many complaints over the reliability of some of their bus services. Complaints are frequently heard from students who claim that buses routinely just do not turn up when they are expected to.

    Travel Coventry has become the target of critics regarding the reliability of certain services in Coventry. After major improvements and refreshment to the Coventry bus network in April 2006 and two months of extensive service monitoring, reliability checks and public feedback Travel Coventry has responded to the findings from these conducts and are making some minor changes in line with this to adjust the services, this will help improve the service quality they provide to their customers. Vehicle types The following table is a summary of the current passenger service fleet which totals 156 vehicles :{| class="wikitable"!Chassis!!width="18%"|Bodywork!!|Quantity!!Seating!!Other Info|-|Optare Solo||7||27-29||"Mini" single deck bus|-|[Volvo B6LE||8||37||"Midi" compact low floor single deck bus|-|[Mercedes-Benz O405N]||Metro Cammell Weymann||26||73|| "Old" step entry double deck bus|-|Dennis Trident 2 or
    TransBus ALX400||40||75||Low floor double deck bus -
    21 of these have bodywork under the Alexander brand and 19 of these have bodywork under the TransBus brand (different only in name)|-|[Volvo B7TL||10||74||Low floor double deck bus|-|Volvo B7TL||[Wright Eclipse GeminiGN||Mercedes-Benz||10||59|| [Articulated bus     (also called a "bendy bus" or "bendibus")|-|Mercedes-Benz O530 Citaro||Mercedes-Benz||10||56|| Articulated single deck bus (also called a "bendy bus" or "bendibus")|}Table footnotes:
  • Four seats in front of stairs on upper deck otherwise similar to Volvo B7TL chassis with Wright Eclipse Gemini bodywork
  • Two seats in front of stairs on upper deck otherwise similar to Volvo B7TL chassis with TransBus ALX400 bodywork


    • Vehicle photographs Image:Bus number 14 5u07.JPG|A Optare Solo single deck bus working on route 14.Image:Bus 801 17u07.JPG|A Volvo B6LE / Wright Crusader single deck bus working on route 801.Image:Coventry travel bus32 27a07.JPG|A Mercedes-Benz O405N single deck bus working on route 32 in Gosford Green, Coventry.Image:Bus route19 18a07.JPG], Coventry.Image:Bus 13A 12u07.JPG|A Dennis Trident 2 / Alexander ALX400 double decker bus working on route 13A.Image:Travel_coventry_no13_26l07.JPG|A Volvo B7TL / Wright Eclipse Gemini working on route 13.Image:Bendybus 21 18s07.JPG|A Mercedes-Benz O405GN articulated bus (or bendy bus) working on route 21.Image:Travel coventry bendibus 13 26l07.JPG|A Mercedes-Benz O530 Citaro bendibus working on route 27.

    Route list Certain routes are showcased and have the "PrimeLines" brand.
    Note : some routes may have routing deviations and/or spurs on certain journeys, part journeys also operate on most routes.{| class="wikitable" border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=4!Route!colspan=2|Terminals!width="38%"|Via!width="22%"|Other info|-!1|Chapelfields|Toll Bar End|Earlsdon Avenue, City Centre and London Road||-!2|City Centre|Fenside|Cheylesmore and Stivichall|Arena Tesco (Longford)|Binley, [Stoke Aldermoor, City Centre and Holbrook Lane], Holbrooks and Lythalls Lane||-!7|City Centre|Brownshill Green|Coundon and Allesley||-!10|Bell Green|Eastern Green||-!11|City Centre|Stonehouse Lane|[Coventry railway station, Cheylesmore, Whitley, Coventry and Willenhall||-!12|Coventry City Centre|Leamington Spa (and Sydenham Estate)], University of Warwick and Kenilworth|Whitmore Park/Prologis Park|Binley Road, City Centre and Radford|Prologis Park (extension) is only served Mon-Fri daytime and Sunday daytime|-!13A|Willenhall|Whitmore Park/Prologis Park|Binley Road, City Centre and Radford|Mon-Fri peak time trips only (serving Binley Industrial Estate)|-!14|City Centre|[Stivichall (Hexworthy Avenue)]/Fenside|Kenilworth Road and Green Lane|Fenside (extension) is only served Mon-Sat 09:30-15:30|-!19|City Centre|Tile Hill South|Earlsdon, Canley railway station, Cannon Park and Canley|Foleshill Road and [Longford, Coventry||-!20A|City Centre|Longford|Foleshill Road||-!21|Wood End, Coventry|Willenhall|Stoney Stanton Road and City Centre||-!21C|Wood End|Willenhall|Stoney Stanton Road, City Centre and Cheylesmore|Mon-Sat early mornings, Mon-Sat evenings and all day Sunday|-!21W|Wood End|Middlemarch Business Park|Stoney Stanton Road and City Centre|Mon-Fri peak time trips only|-!23|City Centre|Allesley Park|Four Pounds Avenue||-!23C|City Centre|Broad Lane|Four Pounds Avenue and Allesley Park|School journeys and Sunday daytime only|-!27|Coventry Station|University Hospital Coventry and Stoke Hill||-!30A|City Centre|Bell Green / [Walsgrave / Lentons Lane Circular]|Hearsall Common, City Centre and Ball Hill||-!32C|Tile Hill Circular|Bell Green|Hearsall Common, City Centre, Ball Hill and Potters Green|Mon-Sat early mornings and Mon-Sun evenings.|-!33|Tile Hill|Bell Green|Hearsall Common, City Centre and Ball Hill||-!34|Tile Hill South|University Hospital Coventry|Broad Lane, City Centre, Binley Road and Clifford Park|Section between Tile Hill South & City Centre only operates Mon-Sat daytime.|-!36|Keresley Village|Little Heath/Arena Tesco (Longford)|Keresley Road, City Centre and Stoke Heath.|Arena Tesco (extension) is only served Mon-Fri 10:00-15:00|-!40|City Centre|Bell Green|Foleshill Road & Windmill Road|Mon-Sat evening and all day Sunday trips extend to Henley Green|-!42|Cannon Park|Coundon|Canley Gardens, Wainbody Avenue and City Centre||-!50|City Centre|Bayton Road|Foleshill Road and Longford|Mon-Fri peak time trips extend to Bedworth|-!58|Tile Hill Wood School|Jubilee Crescent|Tile Hill North, Parkhill Estate, Neale Avenue, Moseley Avenue|Mon-Fri School Service|-!58A|Tile Hill Wood School|Jubilee Crescent|Tile Hill North, Parkhill Estate, Moseley Avenue, Overdale Road, Lammas Road|Mon-Fri School Service|-!60|City Centre|Black Horse Road|Foleshill Road and Longford||-!70|City Centre|Tile Hill South|Hearsall Common|Mon-Fri morning peak time single trip one way|-!75|City Centre|Brownshill Green|Coundon and Allesley Village|Mon-Sat evenings, Sat mornings and all day Sunday|-!81|City Centre|Tile Hill South|Hearsall Common|Mon-Fri peak time trips only|-!81A|Balsall Common|Coventry City Centre|Burton Green, Torrington Avenue and Hearsall Common|Mon-Fri morning peak time single trip one way|-!81E|City Centre|Cannon Park Estate|Hearsall Common, Torrington Avenue and Westwood Heath||-!81W|City Centre|Westwood Business Park|Hearsall Common, Torrington Avenue and Westwood Heath|Mon-Fri peak time trips only|-!801|University of Warwick|University Hospital Coventry|Cheylesmore, Willenhall & Binley|Does not operate before 13:00 on Sundays|-|}

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