(16 Apr 2024, 5:59 pm)Storx wrote You should come live down from a route from the Blyth depot, it's been going on for the best part of 2 year now, ever since the Jesmond ballsup and them gaining work, they never had the drivers to actually do the work.

There's a reason why I'm so pro train and it's not just that it's a train, it's also the incompetence of Arriva.

The allocations are shocking here aswell, there appears to be two boards missing on the X7/X8/X9 today. How should we do it? I have a good idea, let's do two boards straight after each other

And ever since the original 44 was withdrawn (Hazlerigg - Whitley Bay).....both Arriva & GNE have been guilty of a 'pack em in and make them late' mentality! The East of North Tyneside & Seaton Sluice has badly been screaming out of an express. Considering the 308 was at one point (excl any Stagecoach routes) the most profitable behind GNE's 21 which has a parallel express (X21).

My biggest gripe is lets say a 308 or 309 are running in pairs Blyth to New York or Billy Mill. They either keep chasing each other....or in GNE's case, SDC kicks passengers onto the one behind making them even more later. Don't know what the insurance implications are for carrying NIS (maybe Dan would be able to answer that) but surely the driver should say "if you want Newcastle stay on, or if wanting anywhere en-route, jump on the one behind".