(16 Apr 2024, 1:17 pm)mb134 wrote Reduction has went horrendously. Coupled with shocking allocations (Streetlites on the busiest X21/22s to town, and on the hourly X14), there are multiple X21/22s cancelled each day leaving gaps of 90 mins to 2 hours at times.

The lack of plan to fix things from management, given the length of time they have been short of drivers, shows the sheer scale of the incompetence. If the new owners have any sense, every single person involved in the overall "management" of the company should be at the Job Centre within 5 minutes of them taking over.

All three of the Jesmond/Ashington/Blyth depot managers retired at the end of last year. If the man who was the assitant DM at Ashington got the DM job I'm not surprised it's running like a bag of s***e, he wasn't fit to run a bath.

Personally I think the owners are hoping demand drops when the new train line is opened later this year so they're just sucking up the criticism for now.