(03 Dec 2022, 6:20 pm)streetdeckfan wrote When I was stuck in Dunston yesterday waiting for a bus to turn up, there was one thing that really surprised me.I have to say, a couple missed their stop on my 13, and approached me when I got to Doxford. After explaining that I couldn't take them to where they wanted to be, as I had to go and form an X1, I advised them that there'd be a bus shortly. Did I check the app? No - I didn't even think of it until after I'd left - I got out and looked on the timetable poster and pointed it out. Mercifully my little gamble paid off when I saw a bus going up to the 12/13 terminus as I approached the Morrisons.
As it happened to be 3pm-ish, the stop was full of youths from Kingsmeadow, at least 10+ of them, and guess how many of them checked the GNE app to see when their bus was turning up?
None.
They were all checking the timetable at the stop and complaining how the bus hadn't turned up.
I thought they were supposed to be glued to their phones, and love nothing more than using apps!
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