(24 Mar 2023, 8:12 am)Ianthegoon But maybe the councils like "cheap" sufficiently to be prepared to overlook the absence of an actual service?

(24 Mar 2023, 12:06 pm)Adrian Are they not running to the eye, or are they not running according to bustimes?

(24 Mar 2023, 2:26 pm)Jimmi It feels like some transport orgs have just given up and won't take action for repeated violations of contracts, I've heard a few accounts of complaints about services not running (or running late / other issues) and feels like nothing gets done, they often tell you to complain directly to the operators which some aren't likely to take seriously.


The latter is my guess, I know of many that constantly lurk on it to find stuff to complain about, if I were to believe everything on there, then Hodgsons Coaches would only be operating the 17 in Aycliffe for about 2 days a month and others not running some days, in that case, its been no ticket machine or some tracking issue.

Has to be an IRL experience for me to even think of complaining about as I can't say what's occurred for certain if I'm unable to witness it for myself.

(24 Mar 2023, 3:09 pm)F114TML Don't nexus contracts specify the bus has to track? So even if they did actually run but not track, they'd still be breaking the contract...

(24 Mar 2023, 3:12 pm)Adrian Yes, but then you have a scenario of whether you take the bus off the road to fix the reason why the ETM isn't tracking, or you run the bus without it tracking. The penalty for the former is likely to be greater than the latter.

(24 Mar 2023, 2:37 pm)Adrian Absolutely. Bustimes and open data in general is great for stuff tracking, but something not tracking shouldn't be taken as non-operation. My 2A yesterday morning wasn't tracking correctly, and even showing in the GNE app as not being tracked, but it still turned up on time.

Even operators with the most modern fleet in the North East are going to have technical issues from time to time.

(22 Mar 2023, 10:33 am)F114TML That's nothing. There's some routes that don't see a service at all for the whole day.
The R5 last week only ran on 3 of the 6 days it's meant to, and even then only on the Thursday did all journeys run...

(24 Mar 2023, 3:42 pm)F114TML You don't need to take the bus off, just replace the ETM. At least that's how we work, idk about Ticketer. On our buses it takes all of about 3 minutes.

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(27 Mar 2023, 6:01 pm)Retro Nero Noticed today that one of there new 23 reg Ivecos has an amber coloured destination screen compared to the other 23 plated with white screens. Sorry I , didn't get reg.

(27 Mar 2023, 2:58 pm)Unber43 Was GCT able to operate all of their services today?

(30 Mar 2023, 2:53 pm)BusLoverMum Wibblejunior and I managed to catch the ilebus/iveco on the 62, this morning. Cramped is putting it mildly. I struggled, even with my short legs and there isn't much aisle space between the front most seats.

The driver's cab has screens up which cross the entire front of the bus and the ticket machine is in an awkward position for both driver (has to turn) and passenger (has to reach) as a result.

I still have Avril Lavigne rattling around my head from the on bus radio, though