(11 Oct 2021, 10:45 pm)streetdeckfan wrote Speaking of buses dawdling, the same friend ended up being late for work a week or so back because the 10A managed turn up late at High Spen despite it leaving Blackhall Mill on time.Driver might well have had a legit excuse sush as a delivery vehicle, car etc blocking the road beetween Blackhall Mill & High Spen or even several cyclists etc. Or the bus was in limp mode and had a fault.
I can't remember the exact timings but when I looked at Bus Times at the time it took them nearly 10 minutes to get up Mill Road, which would normally take 3-4 minutes, then spent 10 minutes doing the loop around the river streets, which would once again should only take 5 minutes. By the time it got to High Spen it was running 10 minutes late, and she ended up getting to Metrocentre about 25 minutes late. She said there was very little traffic on the route, it was just the driver going slow.
However, deliberately dawdling / toading (not doing speed where road & traffic conditions allow) is unacceptable and GNE would no doubt nip it in the bud if they noticed a pattern.
Happened several times for me but mostly Arriva. One of them being around the X21/X22 Sapphire launch day back in 2014. Slow X22 driver in a new 7524 on way to town & running late. Massive queue for the outbound X21 towards Ashington in the Haymarket when the bus pulled in.