(21 Dec 2016, 6:44 pm)South Tyne Lad 5333 and 5335 were the first two to transfer over once the X6/X7 Service revisions started a few weeks back, 5336 transferred over a few days after, I'm led to believe 5334 transferred over around 2-3 days ago.
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Talking about the 9, The official allocation is 4 Mercedes O530Ns and 2 Corporate Scania L94UB's.
The Citaro's from what I've seen tend to stay out all night, But I believe they don't have set boards for each type.
(21 Dec 2016, 6:44 pm)South Tyne Lad 5333 and 5335 were the first two to transfer over once the X6/X7 Service revisions started a few weeks back, 5336 transferred over a few days after, I'm led to believe 5334 transferred over around 2-3 days ago.
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Talking about the 9, The official allocation is 4 Mercedes O530Ns and 2 Corporate Scania L94UB's.
The Citaro's from what I've seen tend to stay out all night, But I believe they don't have set boards for each type.
(21 Dec 2016, 6:53 pm)dannygee When will 6132 go to percy mainIt's been running fine at Stanley - and has by custom - gone without a wash in a while, so I assume it's down to Percy Main's operations with 3888, but who knows!
(21 Dec 2016, 6:53 pm)dannygee When will 6132 go to percy mainIt's been running fine at Stanley - and has by custom - gone without a wash in a while, so I assume it's down to Percy Main's operations with 3888, but who knows!
(21 Dec 2016, 6:54 pm)Michael Hopefully by the end of February, the 9 is allocated has 6 Citaro's on a full time bases, meaning it won't be a mixed allocated.
(21 Dec 2016, 6:54 pm)Michael Hopefully by the end of February, the 9 is allocated has 6 Citaro's on a full time bases, meaning it won't be a mixed allocated.
(21 Dec 2016, 6:56 pm)Jamie M It's been running fine at Stanley - and has by custom - gone without a wash in a while, so I assume it's down to Percy Main's operations with 3888, but who knows!
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(21 Dec 2016, 8:06 pm)gneasy91 Im traveling to stanley tomoz so im coming from boldon what ticket wud be best for me. be after 5 time i get back so thinking of getting an explorer
(21 Dec 2016, 10:01 pm)idiot Disgrace that GNE are not adding extra dates on the tickets for when they provide no service on Xmas day and nyd.
(21 Dec 2016, 10:01 pm)idiot Disgrace that GNE are not adding extra dates on the tickets for when they provide no service on Xmas day and nyd.
(21 Dec 2016, 10:01 pm)idiot Disgrace that GNE are not adding extra dates on the tickets for when they provide no service on Xmas day and nyd.
(21 Dec 2016, 10:01 pm)idiot Disgrace that GNE are not adding extra dates on the tickets for when they provide no service on Xmas day and nyd.
(21 Dec 2016, 10:15 pm)Malarkey Travel Office at the galleries done me out of 2 Days on my Network One pass the week, said they added them on but didn't and I thought nothing of it as I have never had any issues in the past, until I came to use it last saturday and found it was out of date when I got on the bus.
(21 Dec 2016, 10:15 pm)Malarkey Travel Office at the galleries done me out of 2 Days on my Network One pass the week, said they added them on but didn't and I thought nothing of it as I have never had any issues in the past, until I came to use it last saturday and found it was out of date when I got on the bus.
(21 Dec 2016, 10:58 pm)Ambassador Your pass should have been a reduced rate if it makes you feel better.What makes this particularly hard is the amount of counsils involved in the regulation.
GNEs policy is just greedy and unnecessary. The responses on Facebook have been appalling, usual rank awful customer service. I'd genuinely like to know if the MD can look at those responses and be happy and proud of his staff and the direction they work under. I've worked at many FTSE companies, way bigger than Go Ahead and seen Customer Service Directors hauled over coals and arse kicked for better service than GNE give.
Still, monopoly, they can do what they want. If only we had a regulator with some teeth on ticketing issues.
(21 Dec 2016, 10:58 pm)Ambassador Your pass should have been a reduced rate if it makes you feel better.What makes this particularly hard is the amount of counsils involved in the regulation.
GNEs policy is just greedy and unnecessary. The responses on Facebook have been appalling, usual rank awful customer service. I'd genuinely like to know if the MD can look at those responses and be happy and proud of his staff and the direction they work under. I've worked at many FTSE companies, way bigger than Go Ahead and seen Customer Service Directors hauled over coals and arse kicked for better service than GNE give.
Still, monopoly, they can do what they want. If only we had a regulator with some teeth on ticketing issues.
You make good points, but that's why we have NECA (which is dropping the ball) to pull all this together. It's a tangled web of regional xenophobia and red tape..
The simple answer if for GNE to act like a business that cares about customers and offer extensions/discounts which Arriva, Stagecoach and Network One are all doing. But they don't. So one can only assume they don't.
(22 Dec 2016, 12:06 am)Ambassador You make good points, but that's why we have NECA (which is dropping the ball) to pull all this together. It's a tangled web of regional xenophobia and red tape..They don't have to, though, and this is historical - purely because of the bureaucratic mess this area is when it comes to unity under one authority. There are so many different authorities with different opinions that it becomes literally impossible to stop monopolisation. The counsils independantly dont care what happens so long as there are services provided to their specifications. The counsils are basically at war with each other. At the end of the day, all anybody really cares about in a business financial sector is a line on a chart.
The simple answer if for GNE to act like a business that cares about customers and offer extensions/discounts which Arriva, Stagecoach and Network One are all doing. But they don't. So one can only assume they don't.
(22 Dec 2016, 12:06 am)Ambassador You make good points, but that's why we have NECA (which is dropping the ball) to pull all this together. It's a tangled web of regional xenophobia and red tape..They don't have to, though, and this is historical - purely because of the bureaucratic mess this area is when it comes to unity under one authority. There are so many different authorities with different opinions that it becomes literally impossible to stop monopolisation. The counsils independantly dont care what happens so long as there are services provided to their specifications. The counsils are basically at war with each other. At the end of the day, all anybody really cares about in a business financial sector is a line on a chart.
The simple answer if for GNE to act like a business that cares about customers and offer extensions/discounts which Arriva, Stagecoach and Network One are all doing. But they don't. So one can only assume they don't.
(21 Dec 2016, 11:58 pm)Jamie M What makes this particularly hard is the amount of counsils involved in the regulation.
You have DCC, Newcasle County Counsil, Gateshead Counsil, North Tyneside Counsil, South Tyneside Counsil, Unitary Authorities (Hartlepool/M'bro) and Northumberland County Counsil.
To come up with some sensible restrictions, you need counsil monitoring - which is impossible given the number of different counsils which will all have their own take on what should be done. After all, companies like GNE satisfy the counsils by providing all of the contracts which have their own restrictions. There is certainly price ammendments made by these contracts - just there is no way to bridge the different counsil's regulations into one central monitoring system. Here's a made up example..
Say DDC, Gateshead Counsil and Newcastle City Counsil (the latter under nexus) agree to join together to make route X70 more affordable.
£1 to the boundery from Consett -> Crookgate, £1 to Newcastle from there. Nexus and Go North East then look at the figures and realise that not nearly enough people are getting on the Bus in or through T&W to make ends meet. Nexus then decide that the prices can be put up allow the leg of the journey to be economically plausable for both operator and nexus itself. So the price then shifts up to £1.50 to go from Crookgate to Gateshead. Are DCC going to then reduce the price of their share of the route? No, because that's going to mess with their figures and contracts. The price - one end to the other is going to be £2.50.
I may be talking utter.. uhm... nonsense with my example, and indeed all of this, but this is how I picture it with contracts involved.
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(21 Dec 2016, 11:58 pm)Jamie M What makes this particularly hard is the amount of counsils involved in the regulation.
You have DCC, Newcasle County Counsil, Gateshead Counsil, North Tyneside Counsil, South Tyneside Counsil, Unitary Authorities (Hartlepool/M'bro) and Northumberland County Counsil.
To come up with some sensible restrictions, you need counsil monitoring - which is impossible given the number of different counsils which will all have their own take on what should be done. After all, companies like GNE satisfy the counsils by providing all of the contracts which have their own restrictions. There is certainly price ammendments made by these contracts - just there is no way to bridge the different counsil's regulations into one central monitoring system. Here's a made up example..
Say DDC, Gateshead Counsil and Newcastle City Counsil (the latter under nexus) agree to join together to make route X70 more affordable.
£1 to the boundery from Consett -> Crookgate, £1 to Newcastle from there. Nexus and Go North East then look at the figures and realise that not nearly enough people are getting on the Bus in or through T&W to make ends meet. Nexus then decide that the prices can be put up allow the leg of the journey to be economically plausable for both operator and nexus itself. So the price then shifts up to £1.50 to go from Crookgate to Gateshead. Are DCC going to then reduce the price of their share of the route? No, because that's going to mess with their figures and contracts. The price - one end to the other is going to be £2.50.
I may be talking utter.. uhm... nonsense with my example, and indeed all of this, but this is how I picture it with contracts involved.
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(22 Dec 2016, 5:19 pm)S813 FVK I wonder how many people Dan caught out with those photos of the X66 streetlites from last year that he uploaded to flickr last night
(22 Dec 2016, 5:19 pm)S813 FVK I wonder how many people Dan caught out with those photos of the X66 streetlites from last year that he uploaded to flickr last night
