(12 May 2023, 10:23 pm)solsburian wrote I'll give you overseeing the Sunderland extension, though it was done on a shoestring, should have included Washington and trashed the fleet. Pragmatically, as soon as the extension was opened, they should have begun the process of pressing for a new fleet, sourcing parts for the current fleet was starting becoming an issue back in 2002 so they must have been aware that the situation as not going to get any better with no action.

I always feel that Nexus could have had more teeth like the other PTEs down south, i.e. when Merseytravel went gung ho over the Merseyrail Electrics franchise.
Today Nexus seem almost non-existent, I am often tempted to opt out when the Nexus researchers ask about my ticket and where I am travelling on the bus, because I think what is the point. As it stands, what value does Nexus give to the local authorities they represent, compared to perhaps having transport officers employed directly by the councils?

Aye totally agreed tbh, it's a shame and I can't disagree about budgets etc but there's way too many people up there who are they by being known by certain people rather than merit.

(13 May 2023, 7:13 am)Rob44 wrote Wow, the grief nexus get on here amazes me.  Like andros say bailing out private bus companies . Running the metro with trains probably older then most of the pesters on here ( yes you could argue they should have asked more new rolling stock when the extension to Sunderland was being sorted but how do we know what was going on behind the scenes?? Mybe was one or the  other?).  The also so out bus infrastructure  - have you seen the bus stops in NEXUS land compared to say Northumberland Durham?  Must be at least 99% OF STOPS HAVE A UP TO DATE TIMETABLE and most have shelters.  I remember waiting in the rain for buses in the 80;s as hardly any shelters. and with the private companies chopping and changing timetables it MUST BE A HELL OF A JOB TO CHANGE THEM although im sure those on here could change every stop in nexus land in less than a day including a hour for there dinner!!!  Half the stops in Durham and Northumberland your lucky you can tell its an actual stop! Never mind havin a shelter or a timetable to give you some idea what the crack is! And someone mention Liverpool!! you want to try getting a bus to /from goodison park!!! no timetable att he bus stop on the main drag outside the ground.  Good job there is a spoons there to keep me entertained!

Then there are the running of buses..... if they run the entire service then fine but running a service on an evening and Sundays but letter the commercial operator take the cream of 7 till 6pm pm well that's the biggest P**S take since VAR turned over the penalty to Newcastle on Sunday.

In my view NEXUS do  a reasonable ( not good or Great) in sh*t circumstances....... they get far to much grief for what they dopoorly and no compliments about what they do well

NEXUS is a shambles, there's much more to it than a few bus timetables - a large chunk of bus shelters are maintained by Clear Channel and not Nexus and is a council issue - nothing to do with Nexus hence why there's loads in Sunderland with gardens on top lately and Gateshead generally doesn't have many.

But if you want a list of things they 100% deserve criticism for then here we go and only recent things:

• Serious bullying allegations at the top towards anyone who isn't in their little cult hence the massive staff turnover and low morale
  
• Haymarket Metro station closed due to 2/3 escalators broken
  
• Glass panels off the roof at Whitley Bay due to critical safety checks being skipped
  
• Under investigation by the RAIB/ORR for a fatal incident at one of the underground stations and being unnoticed for hours - it will come out eventually but they can't say much yet but it's serious.
  
• Ignoring the issues with the fleet problems and pretending nothing is wrong. The Metro needs to be dropped to every 15 minutes ASAP otherwise there's going to be severe consequences with severe fleet issues - it's already bad anyway.
  
• Linked to the above lying to the public about removing the peaks because of reduced patronage which was just outright wrong.
  
• The Tyne Passenger Tunnel, Rome was built quicker.
  
• Correspondence when anything going wrong being nothing less than abysmal and gives Arriva a run in for the money.
  
• North Shields Ferry terminal broken, getting the funding to replace it then run out of time to actually use the money.
  
• and a personal one, the trains are absolutely disgusting lately and look like they haven't been cleaned for months. You can physically see the dirt on some seats.
  

It's all on RailUK mostly as there's two posters who have inside connections, both trusted, who keep leaking stuff. There's some pretty abysmal stuff there and as they said if this wasn't a public service and a heritage railway they'd have a prohibition order by now. If any of this was the 3 big bus operators then there'd be absolute hell on here and rightly so.