(16 Nov 2013, 8:53 am)andreos1 wrote If 52,000 more people are heading into Newcastle for the first time on Boxing Day for however many years, (apart from the park n ride) why are services similar to previous years?
Sunderland will be a ghost town and the 40 odd thousand + people who have gone there in the past, will be somewhere else...
Surely it would have made sense to add extra services into Newcastle/Metrocentre (shopping traffic and football traffic isn't a good mix) - rather than have buses duplicating each other along Ryhope Road and at Herrington Burn?
I agree with what you are saying about the analysing of services to identify risk - but this is GNE remember.
Consolidating services in areas they have seen a reasonable patronage in the past, isn't going to help anyone stuck on the Western Bypass.
You do understand that it is a Voluntary shift on Boxing Day, therefore they can only put on services depending on the amount of drivers that have put their name forward. There then also the question - what is commercially viable when the drivers are on double time plus anything extra?