North East Buses

Not really a breakdown, but guess it’ll affect reliability for at least one service today... I’ve just seen a green xlines 400mmc travelling south on St James Boulevard with 3 top deck windows smashed

(04 Jul 2020, 11:23 am)ne14ne1 wrote [ -> ]Not really a breakdown, but guess it’ll affect reliability for at least one service today... I’ve just seen a green xlines 400mmc travelling south on St James Boulevard with 3 top deck windows smashed

Wonder if it was vandalism or a driver clipping something. Judging by the tweet GNE put out, they said it was an 'incident' rather than 'act of vandalism' so I'm leaning towards the latter

Tree branches causing the issue on the route - single deck vehicles currently getting put on

(04 Jul 2020, 3:23 pm)citaro5284 wrote [ -> ]Tree branches causing the issue on the route - single deck vehicles currently getting put on

There's a few tree branches in the area that are hitting buses where they normally wouldn't, even climbing to Gateshead Interchange on Prince Consort Road I've noticed a couple that are hitting the 'deckers.

Not a good start for the 8 today, two breakdowns within the space of half an hour.
https://mobile.twitter.com/gonortheast/s...6371458049
https://mobile.twitter.com/gonortheast/s...2366492677

(05 Oct 2020, 8:32 am)ASX_Terranova wrote [ -> ]Not a good start for the 8 today, two breakdowns within the space of half an hour.
https://mobile.twitter.com/gonortheast/s...6371458049
https://mobile.twitter.com/gonortheast/s...2366492677

It's the same journey.

(05 Oct 2020, 9:28 am)Dan wrote [ -> ]It's the same journey.

My bad, thought it was two vehicles given their going in the same direction.
They could have gotten away one tweet here though.

At least the m6 isn't mentioned these days!

not a break down but a bit of a dunch in collingwood street, Newcastle...

https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/nor...t-19047910

Ouch 70 reg bus.

(05 Oct 2020, 3:21 pm)Rob44 wrote [ -> ]not a break down but a bit of a dunch in collingwood street, Newcastle...

https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/nor...t-19047910

I saw GNE tweet about an incident at the High Level and I though there was going to be a jumper or something. 
Never envisaged a brand new bus rear-ending a car, like it appears to be. https://twitter.com/NELiveTraffic/status...06656?s=09
https://twitter.com/NELiveTraffic/status...12710?s=09

Hopefully only pride is hurt!

Here’s a photo posted onto Instagram I saw of the front of 6369.

(05 Oct 2020, 4:21 pm)Andreos1 wrote [ -> ]I saw GNE tweet about an incident at the High Level and I though there was going to be a jumper or something. 
Never envisaged a brand new bus rear-ending a car, like it appears to be. https://twitter.com/NELiveTraffic/status...06656?s=09
https://twitter.com/NELiveTraffic/status...12710?s=09

Hopefully only pride is hurt!

At a guess judging where it is, it could have been the car going through a red light on that corner as the bus was coming through, seen near misses there plenty of times myself. Don't see how a bus would end up rear ending someone down there if not someone going through a red light.

(05 Oct 2020, 9:25 pm)deanmachine wrote [ -> ]At a guess judging where it is, it could have been the car going through a red light on that corner as the bus was coming through, seen near misses there plenty of times myself. Don't see how a bus would end up rear ending someone down there if not someone going through a red light.

In hindsight, I don't think it's for us to speculatenon the forum like this, but I must admit I did try to play detective and try to work out what happened. 

Still struggling. Especially when you look at where the car ended up and where the damage is.

(05 Oct 2020, 9:35 pm)Andreos1 wrote [ -> ]In hindsight, I don't think it's for us to speculatenon the forum like this, but I must admit I did try to play detective and try to work out what happened. 

Still struggling. Especially when you look at where the car ended up and where the damage is.

Had it been a 'normal' time, I would be surprised if it turned out the driver was looking down sorting out the change, I've been on buses a few times when the drivers have slammed on after not realising someone in front was slowing down.

But since cash is going straight into the tub I doubt that would be the case

(05 Oct 2020, 6:34 pm)TEN 6083 wrote [ -> ]Here’s a photo posted onto Instagram I saw of the front of 6369.

On a separate note - first time I've seen that combined Wi-Fi/USB symbol and can't help but think that at a glance that looks like the WIFI is scored through, effectively saying 'WIFI unavailable'. Could do with a rethink.

(05 Oct 2020, 9:35 pm)Andreos1 wrote [ -> ]In hindsight, I don't think it's for us to speculatenon the forum like this, but I must admit I did try to play detective and try to work out what happened. 

Still struggling. Especially when you look at where the car ended up and where the damage is.

Could have been anything really, but fortunately with the amount of CCTV cameras (internal and external) on a modern bus, it should always result in the correct outcome.

(06 Oct 2020, 11:42 pm)Adrian wrote [ -> ]Could have been anything really, but fortunately with the amount of CCTV cameras (internal and external) on a modern bus, it should always result in the correct outcome.

Or unfortunately if you're the one at fault!

On a slightly related note, I've seen a lot of drivers these days adopting the "I've got a dashcam" mentality of using the horn rather than actually slowing down when they see something happening in front, purely because they have a dashcam that will show them they weren't the cause.

(06 Oct 2020, 11:57 pm)streetdeckfan wrote [ -> ]Or unfortunately if you're the one at fault!

On a slightly related note, I've seen a lot of drivers these days adopting the "I've got a dashcam" mentality of using the horn rather than actually slowing down when they see something happening in front, purely because they have a dashcam that will show them they weren't the cause.

I find that hard to believe. No professional driver in their right mind would deliberately attempt cause an accident, as you have suggested! 

If they did, they would likely still be classed as driving without due care and attention. With dashcam footage and telematics data to back that up.

(07 Oct 2020, 9:51 am)Adrian wrote [ -> ]I find that hard to believe. No professional driver in their right mind would deliberately attempt cause an accident, as you have suggested! 

If they did, they would likely still be classed as driving without due care and attention. With dashcam footage and telematics data to back that up.

I meant with everyone seemingly having a dashcam these days, driving standards in general seem to have dropped, not that the driver in question intentionally caused an accident, hence my note being 'slightly related'