(22 Mar 2021, 10:02 pm)OrangeArrow49 wrote What vandalism? So just later in the day it misses part of the route? Not much use to passengers wishing to board or alight in that section! It was late on Sunday afternoon I saw it miss part of the route. Can understand it late on an evening, but still comes as part of parcel of running a bus service unfortunately.
In fairness if there is vandalism you can't blame GCT for missing that section, they have a duty to protect their driver and those on the vehicle. Lothian recently pulled all evening services for the Scottish capital due to vandalism, and quite rightly.
You'd hope it would be communicated via appropriate channels but it doesn't appear to have beeen the case having a quick look on their Facebook. You'd also think that in instances like that they'd have got approval from Nexus, or at least informed them (not sure on how that works with a tendered service mind).
(22 Mar 2021, 7:34 pm)Adrian wrote There's no suggestion of dishing out contracts out of sympathy, but making throw-away remarks about wishing for businesses to lose contracts offers nothing to a discussion.
Maybe some of those who "can't influence" the operation are missing out parts of routes for example, but sadly the bad apples aren't always the ones who reap what they sow.
You'd like to think that in this day and age it would be quite easy for them to find out who they need to let go. I'd imagine they'd have a log of which driver was assigned to duty 'X' on any given date, or to which engineers signed off on buses being allowed out without a valid MOT (if that turns out to be true). Though with the latter, I'd imagine the buck would stop with the upper management and, as you say, they wouldn't be the ones to lose out - unless they were restricted from managing/controlling a transport firm somehow?