Arriva North East: Upcoming Service Changes
Arriva North East: Upcoming Service Changes
(10 Jan 2016, 5:00 pm)tyresmoke I am sad to see the X5 withdrawn too, I'm going to try and get to drive the last one (1715 ex Mbro) on 21st February!
It seems to be a bit of a casualty of lack of peak resource really as we'll only have one bus available to us instead of two, and we decided this would be better used boosting the frequency across the whole 5 route instead of part of it (hence the 10 min frequency for an hour each way).
There's no denying it was a popular service, though more on a morning than on an afternoon. Unfortunately it's only really the college students using as when these are not around, the X5 is lucky to carry 10 people on each journey. It's a shame really as people just didn't use it enough to justify it.
The 5 going to Liverton every 2 hours on a Sunday is indeed correct, and hopefully people from Liverton Mines will make use of it more than the people of Skinningrove do?! I've long wondered why Skinningrove got an hourly service and Liverton got nothing, at least this has now been put right.
Out of interest can you do anything about the parking in Liverton Mines? It's getting bloody awkward to say the least!
(10 Jan 2016, 5:00 pm)tyresmoke I am sad to see the X5 withdrawn too, I'm going to try and get to drive the last one (1715 ex Mbro) on 21st February!
It seems to be a bit of a casualty of lack of peak resource really as we'll only have one bus available to us instead of two, and we decided this would be better used boosting the frequency across the whole 5 route instead of part of it (hence the 10 min frequency for an hour each way).
There's no denying it was a popular service, though more on a morning than on an afternoon. Unfortunately it's only really the college students using as when these are not around, the X5 is lucky to carry 10 people on each journey. It's a shame really as people just didn't use it enough to justify it.
The 5 going to Liverton every 2 hours on a Sunday is indeed correct, and hopefully people from Liverton Mines will make use of it more than the people of Skinningrove do?! I've long wondered why Skinningrove got an hourly service and Liverton got nothing, at least this has now been put right.
Out of interest can you do anything about the parking in Liverton Mines? It's getting bloody awkward to say the least!
