An Hour in Norwich City Centre

Just after lunchtime time today I was able to spend an hour observing activity in Norwich city centre.

My first port of call was the Bus Station off Surrey Street.

At the time of my visit there wasn't much of note other than Norfolk Green's Optare Tempo 110 (YJ56ATV) laying over prior to its next duty.

St Stephen's Street brought the usual 'run of the mill' vehicles so I decided to camp on Castle Meadow where I would view some of the Konectbus ADL Enviro 400s

The photo of 607 (SN61CZX) was probably the best of the bunch and also features First Eastern Counties Trident 33242 (LT52WVL) following behind on the 27A City service.

The last vehicle of interest was Emsworth & District DAF/Van Hool Y297HUA which began picking up its clients at a city service bus stop. 

A number of other independents arrived at local stops at the same time causing service buses to double park in order to allow their passengers to embark/disembark. 

With local buses stopping to pick up passengers in the opposite direction, a log jam occurred with nothing moving in either direction for about two to three minutes.

Clearly something needs to be done to manage this a lot better by restricting non-local coaches to pick up only in set aside areas. However, it was quite entertaining for the observer!