(24 Dec 2021, 5:37 pm)Adrian wrote Its something that needs to be considered industry-wide though; its not specific to one operator, area or region.

I'm not sure what the history behind Christmas Eve or New Years Eve early finishes is, but its a fairly outdated practice.

There needs to be a balance between ensuring staff have decent availability to time off over Christmas, but at the same time recognising that there's still a limited demand to meet and a service to provide. Even a very limited skeleton service on core routes would be better than we have now and not leave shift workers stranded.

When we talk about encouraging people away from their cars, its worth remembering that private cars don't stop working after 7pm on two eves a year.

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all very true.  But is Tesco open till midnight?  Is B and Ms open now so I can get another set of lights for the Christmas tree? Can i call vodaphone to upgrade my phone after 7pm tonight???  I don't know the answers to these but at a guess i would say no to all three.

As for Skelton service I've been unlucky enough to live in 2 areas where if you use boxing day as an example i would have to walk 3 miles down then up a hill to  Durham road for a 21 or walk a mile to widopen crem  for a 43 so really you might as well give the drivers an couple of early finishes, 3 days off over Christmas and use the bus the other 361 days a year they run ( unless it snows )