10 Sep 2017, 9:34 pm
#176
(10 Sep 2017, 8:56 am)Andreos1 Let's hope the examples you provide, are just the beginning of a pattern of passenger improvements eezypeazy.
I would love to see the organisation continue to do u-turns and re-introduce (or even introduce) services or runs that benefit passengers.
However, you missed out the X22 and X39 curtailment and 11X changes.
(Sits back and waits for eezypeazy to start blathering on about passenger numbers, a magic money tree or other conservative, anti-passenger dogma)
11X and X39 changes/curtailment are hardly major cutbacks - any passengers who used the X39 to Gateshead can easily change buses in Central Newcastle, and similarly anyone who used the 11X.
X22 has changed just on one day per week - on Sunday it doesn't run from Durham (it only ran every 2 hours) but now runs from Chester-le-Street on an improved hourly frequency. With X21 now running on
Sunday, any passenger doing Durham to Metrocentre can catch X21 to Gateshead and then X66 every hour.
Services or runs only benefit passengers if they use them, in most cases where Go North East have changed services passengers can still travel.
It's not only Go North East that makes service changes, Stagecoach North East have taken out almost 30 buses this year, with many services having changed.
