(5 hours ago)cbma06 wrote This is what happens when stagecoach buys busways out and streamline and cut services to the bone to please the shareholders , profit before passengers safety and well being, should of kept double deckers on the E services, stagecoach are not going to pay the use of open top buses and drivers wages on top of normal services that are running plus wages, roker and harbour view residents/passengers have been hit hard with only the E1 service with the cancelled 18/19 service in the area, passengers are lucky to get a seat or a standing space on the full capacity E1 from shields
I assumed when they bought 20x Yutongs for the E1/E2/E6 they would reinstate the 20 mins Freq (5 combined) along the corridor as that was cut during COVID, then halfed during the 'Great Driver Shortage of 2021' then upped to the Covid freq of now, but nothing has been mentioned.
Really should have deckers, they are always busier than anyother route or corridor. Alternatively they could Extend the 23 (and renumber it to E3 or something).
Or just simply magic Decker's out of nowhere just like they need to do for both Slatyford and Walkergate!
But yet again done the logic of sticking to frequency and single decks
