(13 Oct 2019, 10:04 am)Michael wrote Contracts coming up for renewal i think, sure it was mentioned a while back, be interesting to see if any changes are made to the Hexham contracts
Where has 5481-4 gone?
6162 - 6166, any of them been repainted yet?, i rarely get to go out and about these days so never know anything!
Any idea when the Hexham contracts are up for renewal? Are they staying with GNE, but just changes to routes and timetables are possible?
Good point from streetdeck fan, NSAs could be made a requirement for the council funded contracts to make the services more accessible. I only thought it would be a good idea for consistency to have NSAs on Tynedale Links services and Tynedale Express has them, but I can see the cost implication could be unjustifiable for contracted rather than commercial services. Nothing to do with 'liking' a service or not. Likewise I explained the same logic for making the 74 an Xlinks (not Xlines) X74, to align it with the X84/X85 more closely, but I can see it would be unsuitable for rebranding/upgrading due to frequency and passenger numbers - have to say rural communities get a bad deal sometimes, for example the 74 being the only bus service for many customers in Medburn, Stamfordham, Matfen, Great Whittington etc.