Arriva North East service levels during the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic
Arriva North East service levels during the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic
Anyone got any ideas, news about what is happening with the Arriva fleets in light of the current situation. What is being kept on the road and what delicensed/stored.? Passed Stockton depot recently but was before the current timetables started.
(01 Apr 2020, 5:11 pm)Ryland Are we to expect the new time table change to go ahead this weekend
(01 Apr 2020, 11:45 am)scanialover Anyone got any ideas, news about what is happening with the Arriva fleets in light of the current situation. What is being kept on the road and what delicensed/stored.? Passed Stockton depot recently but was before the current timetables started.
(01 Apr 2020, 5:11 pm)Ryland Are we to expect the new time table change to go ahead this weekend
(01 Apr 2020, 11:45 am)scanialover Anyone got any ideas, news about what is happening with the Arriva fleets in light of the current situation. What is being kept on the road and what delicensed/stored.? Passed Stockton depot recently but was before the current timetables started.
(01 Apr 2020, 6:20 pm)peter Judging by the Arriva site, the changes in Redcar & East Cleveland will not be going ahead for the foreseeable future, as the page on the website detailing the changes indicates they have now been postponed. The changes that are to happen in County Durham/Darlington and Northumberland/Tyne & Wear do not have the same message stating they have been postponed.
This would suggest that the timetable changes in County Durham and Northumberland will be imposed when service levels return to normal (whenever that may be) whereas the Redcar changes will occur at an announced date in the future. This seems fair enough to me as the Redcar changes were quite significant whereas the other changes were all relatively minor (a handful of journeys added, removed or revised was the greatest extent of them really).
(01 Apr 2020, 6:20 pm)peter Judging by the Arriva site, the changes in Redcar & East Cleveland will not be going ahead for the foreseeable future, as the page on the website detailing the changes indicates they have now been postponed. The changes that are to happen in County Durham/Darlington and Northumberland/Tyne & Wear do not have the same message stating they have been postponed.
This would suggest that the timetable changes in County Durham and Northumberland will be imposed when service levels return to normal (whenever that may be) whereas the Redcar changes will occur at an announced date in the future. This seems fair enough to me as the Redcar changes were quite significant whereas the other changes were all relatively minor (a handful of journeys added, removed or revised was the greatest extent of them really).
(01 Apr 2020, 10:41 pm)Jimmi The service changes planned to be implemented from this weekend in all areas have been postponed until a currently undetermined date (County Durham & Darlington, Teesside and East Cleveland).
(01 Apr 2020, 10:41 pm)Jimmi The service changes planned to be implemented from this weekend in all areas have been postponed until a currently undetermined date (County Durham & Darlington, Teesside and East Cleveland).
Nothing on service updates (ANE) and no-one has come to life here so must guess we have no changes to the present emergency timetables. GNE and StagecoachNE have posted .
Apparently Redcar (maybe all depots?) stopped giving tickets out to concessionary pass holders to save money from Wednesday.
62s don't seem to be showing on the tracker. Think interworking with 64A as saw 4717 on earlier but 62 journeys not showing.
No 5s either.
Notice on 1489 , service 17 trip out of Middlesbrough at 1130 asking people not to stand in front of a taped line just behind the front axle. Common sense really but one or two travellers still haven't got the hang of this social distancing thing
(07 Apr 2020, 1:02 pm)Cock Robin Stockton 5s and Redcar 62s still not showing on the tracker.A lack of tracking on BusTimes is likely to be an issue pretty much throughout this pandemic due to short notice changes to routes and timetables, been the case for most operators on there.
(07 Apr 2020, 1:02 pm)Cock Robin Stockton 5s and Redcar 62s still not showing on the tracker.A lack of tracking on BusTimes is likely to be an issue pretty much throughout this pandemic due to short notice changes to routes and timetables, been the case for most operators on there.
Just curious does anyone know how Arriva Northumbria have decided which buses are still on the road as there's some very bizarre choices. Ashington And Blyth keeping darts on the road and taking the Solos off. Jesmond taking the whole streetlite fleet off yet keeping the 51/02 plate Volve B7TL's on the road are just a couple. Surely the darts and 18 year old deckers can't be more economical than newer stuff and there's newer Enviro's off the road at Jesmond aswell or are these just all knackered?
Edit: then again it doesn't like they've actually withdrawn anything as everything is still taxed.
Also am I right in saying the 57 on Sundays and evening is ran 1 bus from Blyth and 1 bus from Ashington now. Notice there's a Streetlite and a Gemini 2 on which is a bit overkill.
(09 Apr 2020, 8:24 pm)Storx Just curious does anyone know how Arriva Northumbria have decided which buses are still on the road as there's some very bizarre choices. Ashington And Blyth keeping darts on the road and taking the Solos off. Jesmond taking the whole streetlite fleet off yet keeping the 51/02 plate Volve B7TL's on the road are just a couple. Surely the darts and 18 year old deckers can't be more economical than newer stuff and there's newer Enviro's off the road at Jesmond aswell or are these just all knackered?
Edit: then again it doesn't like they've actually withdrawn anything as everything is still taxed.
Also am I right in saying the 57 on Sundays and evening is ran 1 bus from Blyth and 1 bus from Ashington now. Notice there's a Streetlite and a Gemini 2 on which is a bit overkill.
(09 Apr 2020, 8:24 pm)Storx Just curious does anyone know how Arriva Northumbria have decided which buses are still on the road as there's some very bizarre choices. Ashington And Blyth keeping darts on the road and taking the Solos off. Jesmond taking the whole streetlite fleet off yet keeping the 51/02 plate Volve B7TL's on the road are just a couple. Surely the darts and 18 year old deckers can't be more economical than newer stuff and there's newer Enviro's off the road at Jesmond aswell or are these just all knackered?
Edit: then again it doesn't like they've actually withdrawn anything as everything is still taxed.
Also am I right in saying the 57 on Sundays and evening is ran 1 bus from Blyth and 1 bus from Ashington now. Notice there's a Streetlite and a Gemini 2 on which is a bit overkill.
(09 Apr 2020, 8:24 pm)Storx Just curious does anyone know how Arriva Northumbria have decided which buses are still on the road as there's some very bizarre choices. Ashington And Blyth keeping darts on the road and taking the Solos off. Jesmond taking the whole streetlite fleet off yet keeping the 51/02 plate Volve B7TL's on the road are just a couple. Surely the darts and 18 year old deckers can't be more economical than newer stuff and there's newer Enviro's off the road at Jesmond aswell or are these just all knackered?
Edit: then again it doesn't like they've actually withdrawn anything as everything is still taxed.
Also am I right in saying the 57 on Sundays and evening is ran 1 bus from Blyth and 1 bus from Ashington now. Notice there's a Streetlite and a Gemini 2 on which is a bit overkill.
(09 Apr 2020, 8:24 pm)Storx Just curious does anyone know how Arriva Northumbria have decided which buses are still on the road as there's some very bizarre choices. Ashington And Blyth keeping darts on the road and taking the Solos off. Jesmond taking the whole streetlite fleet off yet keeping the 51/02 plate Volve B7TL's on the road are just a couple. Surely the darts and 18 year old deckers can't be more economical than newer stuff and there's newer Enviro's off the road at Jesmond aswell or are these just all knackered?
Edit: then again it doesn't like they've actually withdrawn anything as everything is still taxed.
Also am I right in saying the 57 on Sundays and evening is ran 1 bus from Blyth and 1 bus from Ashington now. Notice there's a Streetlite and a Gemini 2 on which is a bit overkill.
Would suggest that Arriva, at least Dormanstown and Stockton which are on my patch, are rotating vehicles, as opposed to taking a number out of service. Don't get to see that many due to keeping to the guidelines but that's what it looks like. Anyone else got any thoughts.