21s ran fine, aside 20 minute gaps, going to Newcastle for match day for a nice change, much better performance than Wednesday..
The late kick off obviously helps and shows there’s large numbers of people travelling to Newcastle or on the roads for reasons beyond football on your average Saturday. I used the X12 from the cannon into the match as there’d been no 21 for 20 minutes which isn’t too unusual and the X21 wasn’t tracking but did appear to run behind my X12
Had a long wait for a 21 home and My chariot home last night was full and standing from High Level, including the upper deck which drivers don’t seem to bother about now but made it incredibly difficult to get off, The drinkers and post match crowd mix was again fairly manageable.
Eldon Square remains a dismally disorganised place to wait for a bus mind and Newcastle council really need to solve the John Dobson street into Central Motorway junction. It’s a real bottle neck and all buses get trapped
RE: Disruptions and driver shortages
Wistfully stuck in the 90s