(29 Sep 2023, 9:10 am)DeltaMan wrote The webpage on the GNE website stated on Monday, and I quote "....our Skelton service will focus predominantly on ensuring that school services operate where possible".
If I'm a user of the 21 or 56 service, my takeaway from that is my service would not be running.
Honestly, I don't think most people would read it like that personally. Personally I'd read that as an ensurance to parents that their kids will get to school and prioritising boards on normal services where kids use it to go to school. There's plenty normal bus routes which are school buses aswell rather than only the school contracts.
I know when Arriva had the Jesmond strikes, they announced what would be running over a week in advance and it's the right thing to do, it shouldn't be done through cryptic clues.
The wording from Monday should have been, we will ONLY be running school contracts and apologise for the inconvenience caused.