(08 Oct 2022, 10:50 pm)stagecoachbusdepot wrote I really struggle to see how anyone could expect buses to be running anything like to time with the absolute mess of traffic chaos seemingly everywhere today. Seems the combination of a Newcastle home match, Junior GNR, Network Rail Strike and the usual misery of endless roadworks all being allowed to happen at the same time buggered the roads up a bit. All the planning in the world at Bensham, the Wheatsheaf or wherever can't do much about horrific traffic queues and stupidly timed traffic signals. One of the many queues I was stuck in today was on CME/Tyne Bridge and saw 3 X1s heading into Toon within 5 mins of each other. I did wonder why one or more hadn't been regulated at Gateshead, but then of course people would only moan that the queue at Eldon Square was too long for the one that turned up. Sometimes they just cannot win.
I think, from my end, we’d see sympathy if this was an issue limited to this Saturday and all the issues it brings. Even pre covid on some routes, there was zero common sense. I’d Love if this was a one off…
However…it’s not, it’s every Saturday, in most cases it’s every weekday. It’s a lack of communication which is a huge issue. The inbound standing fully 21 I was on sat for ten minutes at Gateshead as there was no driver…absolutely no communication from the 10 gne drivers around stand N (not necc their role but from a leisure customer point of view…) I’m all but a leisure traveller these days and I’m fortunate that I can afford an Uber home, as I did tonight as the service is intolerably late and unreliable.