(03 Aug 2022, 5:20 pm)Dan wrote It saves two drivers given the length of the shift and the fact it’s on EU.

That’s ten extra local bus shifts covered in Sunderland, every week, without overtime, to cover high sickness rates and backdated holidays.

It’s hilarious that the people on this forum who declared the X11 as a waste of resource and a luxury are the same people who are complaining about its withdrawal.

It’s hilarious that the people on this forum who called for reductions to be made (like Arriva and Stagecoach) are the same people who are complaining about reductions being made.

I cannot believe that someone in a senior commercial position at GNE feels comfortable defending these changes.

Yes the industry is facing unprecedented challenges, but the way GNE are going about their business, making snap and unpredictable decisions seemingly on the hoof, is no way to run a bus company.

We are seeing several of the soon-to-be-former MD’s vanity projects collapsing like a pack of cards, and it’s the company’s poor customers who have to pick up the pieces.