Disruptions and driver shortages
Disruptions and driver shortages
GNE, what a joke today on the 60, out of the 6 buses that are supposed to be on only 4 were on until 17:00 when there were finally 6 buses on, well that's until some buses finish for the night.
Buses, 10/15/17/25 mins late. No bus for 40 minutes this morning, and tonight leaving the town, the last bus was at 15:53 which left 10 mins late, then the next bus was at 16:41 which came in late as it came straight from the 24, so it either came from the Depot or came from being parked up as the same 4 buses had been on all day, with the 2 missing from service.
The driver of the 14:53 from Sunderland to Parkside left Sunderland 13 minutes late, arriving at Parkside at 16:06 arriving 34 minutes late, with another 60 right behind the genius driver of the 14:53 decided to do a run back, then he turned around a Rhyope and did the 61, the 16:19 from Sunderland, which was 15 mins late when he turned around.
So because the 16:19 61 didn't run, but thankfully the 16:49 did run from Sunderland and the 16:41 60 did run, we thought that there would be no 60 till 16:56 as that was the next one due in after the moron who ran 34 mins late but then turned around and did a 61.
The 61 has been running with massive delays as well. The queues at Parklane went well past the coach stand. What an absolutely tragic performance by GNE today on the 60/61
If it's put on the social media/Short Notice Cancellation list I wouldn't have a problem but for all everyone knows the 60s were running fine except the tweet from GNE says services were running 30 minutes late, but honestly. Throughout the days there have been loads of Depford services running with delays and there's nothing on Twitter or services which haven't run at all and are not listed on short notice cancellations.
I know snow would have caused some issues but there is no excuse for Go North East's absolute shambolic performance today, with no one telling passengers what's happening, there were loads of elderly standing waiting for a bus that wasn't going to turn up for 40 mins.
How hard is it to write in a document, service times that arent running? Disgusting.
