(22 Aug 2021, 6:49 am)Dan wrote A 5-figure amount of these were printed and put on every bus in the fleet last week.
Anecdotally I saw a bus enthusiast get on a Riverside bus last week and put a good handful in his bag. I also noticed them being sold on eBay by a bus enthusiast.
I’m not against enthusiasts taking a copy because it’s an important part of history - but I’d suggest the issue isn’t the lack of booklets being made available, it’s the fact a functional document for those unable to access this information online is being taken for some enthusiasts to profiteer upon.
Or don't want to
It's important that the choice remains there, which is why I was pleased when paper timetables were introduced, after seemingly being abandoned some 18 months previous. It's a shame if multiple copies are being picked up by enthusiasts, with no other purpose than to make a profit on eBay, but I guess the only way to stop that is if GNE themselves were to list them at the cost of postage only. It'd sharp put the timetable bandits out of business.
I did however notice that some buses I used on the first run of the day had none of these booklets either. I'd suggest that they're not being stocked en-mass on buses, because there's really no practical place to put them. They're too big for the standard timetable holders, and if they are put anywhere else, they'll most likely end up on the floor. Probably why the copy I found was chucked between the bin and the window on a Versa.