(26 Jun 2022, 1:46 am)Bazza wrote Are these disruptions caused solely by driver shortages? Or is it a lack of working buses?
Across the three main operators I would say probably a combination of the two, but mainly the lack of drivers.
This has been a problem for some time now, more than enough time to to solve it if it was an attractive job to go into as recruitment and retention wouldn’t be a problem.
The operators need to return to basics. And if it means working together to provide services that get people from a to b when they want to travel then that is what they should do.
Lack of drivers, there's no other way of really putting it, other than Arriva Redcar, which had bus shortages (there's no driver shortages down there as far as I'm aware).
GNE have ample school buses doing nothing on a weekend they could use.