(14 Mar 2020, 9:56 pm)scanialover The changes to service 7, Darlington-Durham are interesting? Leaving out Durham Gate at non-peak times should help with punctuality. What it worrying though is the statement that there is to be more buses between 0700 and 0900 and that most of these will be operated by double deck vehicles. Let's hope then that the Darlington maintainance team get their act together!

(17 Mar 2020, 7:02 pm)scanialover There is a very straightforward answer to this sort of behaviour ? Withdraw the services and have the timetable operating around a 6am to 6pm 12 hour timeframe. Controversial yes but putting lives and vehicles at risk for the few measly quid in revenue they generate ? Is it worth it ?

Come the day and the fast escalating Corona virus situation though are we going to have buses for these mindless imbiciles to terrorise ! Now that is scary !

(17 Mar 2020, 7:02 pm)scanialover There is a very straightforward answer to this sort of behaviour ? Withdraw the services and have the timetable operating around a 6am to 6pm 12 hour timeframe. Controversial yes but putting lives and vehicles at risk for the few measly quid in revenue they generate ? Is it worth it ?

Come the day and the fast escalating Corona virus situation though are we going to have buses for these mindless imbiciles to terrorise ! Now that is scary !

(17 Mar 2020, 7:02 pm)scanialover There is a very straightforward answer to this sort of behaviour ? Withdraw the services and have the timetable operating around a 6am to 6pm 12 hour timeframe. Controversial yes but putting lives and vehicles at risk for the few measly quid in revenue they generate ? Is it worth it ?

Come the day and the fast escalating Corona virus situation though are we going to have buses for these mindless imbiciles to terrorise ! Now that is scary !

(17 Mar 2020, 9:22 pm)scanialover Anyone got any news, thoughts, 'inside' information about what could be happening to our bus networks as a result of the Corona virus?

(18 Mar 2020, 9:25 pm)tyresmoke Everyone moving to Saturday service levels starting Monday.

streetdeckfan For most services changing to a Saturday service will make little to no difference for a passenger. It's mostly just the early and late journeys that change.

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(19 Mar 2020, 7:30 am)Ianthegoon Can't help but feel that this approach will cause problems for those still working to get to work first thing.  Would it have been better to generally thin the service during the daytime (Weekday and Saturday often the same outside the peaks, so perhaps thin to a Sunday or Enhanced Sunday service) but maintain the early morning commuter runs?

(18 Mar 2020, 10:06 am)scanialover It was South Bank, service 64a that proved to be my departure point from the industry. After repeated attacks on drivers and vehicles it was my turn working a 64a board, it was most unsettling. Despite reassurances from management and the curtailment, for a time, it happened again. This time to a colleague and then on the following evening working the same shift I simply refused to operate the part that worked through the affected area. It wasnt just that the led me to walk though? The  whole attitudes and behaviours towards drivers doing their best in trying and far to often, dangerous circumstances by some the residents in that area  was frankly deplorable and being sat in the situation of no defence with management and customer services leaning towards them proved to be the catalyst.

End of the day and moving forward I wonder how they'll cope when services get withdrawn? We're heading that way.

streetdeckfan Issue with that is that some services don't run on a Sunday, so I think they'd have been better off doing it on a route by route basis.