Tyne and Wear Metro
Tyne and Wear Metro
(10 Feb 2015, 7:41 pm)Dan The frequency of the delays is not the issue - it's the reason for the delays occurring.
If we think back to the situation Go North East had with the X7... The vehicles kept on regularly breaking down, and as soon as they could, they upgraded the service to Mercedes Citaros which were by far more suited to the job. Bus operators are in a much better position to replace rolling stock to improve reliability or to make changes to add more running time / recovery time / layover time for the same purpose. A recent example of the latter obviously being the 20/20A services!
(10 Feb 2015, 7:41 pm)Dan The frequency of the delays is not the issue - it's the reason for the delays occurring.
If we think back to the situation Go North East had with the X7... The vehicles kept on regularly breaking down, and as soon as they could, they upgraded the service to Mercedes Citaros which were by far more suited to the job. Bus operators are in a much better position to replace rolling stock to improve reliability or to make changes to add more running time / recovery time / layover time for the same purpose. A recent example of the latter obviously being the 20/20A services!