(02 Dec 2015, 8:02 am)wise owl wrote Shame that " Sorry bus is full " isn't on the 0 scroll. Rather usfull when newcastle are at home or events at chester riverside!!

The old "Bus Full" display was never intended to be used on normal service work: it was intended for Great North Run Baggage Buses. Because it was being mis-used, it was taken out of the programmes at the back end of 2013.

Looking at the image below - would you be in a position to confirm which service this bus was operating? Whilst the likelihood is that the bus would have been operating service 700, the service for which the vehicle is branded, there is a slight chance that the vehicle may have been allocated to the wrong service. A greater problem would arise if a corporate liveried vehicle used this display whilst operating a branded service - if it was on a shared corridor, how would customers know that bus not stopping due to being full is actually their service as opposed to another?

Go North East: 0630 NK61EGY Optare Solo SR by emdjt42, on Flickr


The alternative would of course be to set up a "Bus Full" display which includes the route number of each service. However; if the traffic commissioner is stood on the Tyne Bridge looking for vehicles operating service 21 to Newcastle, they will be looking for a bus with that on the destination, not "21 Bus Full". This is also the reason why drivers shouldn't change their destination before they have passed the final stop prior to the terminus (ie drivers on service 21 changing their destination to 'Durham' at Gateshead, heading into Newcastle). In the eyes of the traffic commissioner, that scheduled service to Newcastle wouldn't have operated.