“It was the first time I’d ever traveled on the 11 Bus, and I stupidly misread the timetable and thought a full circuit took about an hour, so thought my Flip’s memory of 60 minutes would pretty much cover it.”
11 Bus on 11th Nov 2009 from Nicky Getgood on Vimeo.
Not quite, Nicky — but a [...]
Birmingham Friends of the Earth (probably promoting public transport) took an evening circuit:
“Given that we had taken up most of the back half of the top deck, it seems we also confused quite a few seasoned back seat dwellers by occupying their preferred spot, and hence forcing them to sit in unfamiliar territory further towards [...]
Nikki Pugh is an artist with a fine obsession with GPS and mapping, she took one of her gismos on a circuit of the 11C and this is the result.
Pete Ashton took 69 photos — one every other stop on a circuit of the route. He had to do it by bike, there simply aren’t enough elevens to get you round in a day if you’re going to get off every other stop. As you can see it took all day, Brum gets eerie [...]
Mike did a circuit of the 11C from King’s Heath to King’s Heath — in the dark.
Replay a snapshot of the 11 bus extravaganza – via the medium of Twitter:
11 bus tweets
Tom took a trip on “the peasant wagon”, from Witton, to erm, Witton. And concludes.
“If you ever find yourself with nothing to do, get on a bus, a train, in your car, and head somewhere you’ve never been before – even if somewhere is nowhere in particular.”
