(28 Dec 2014, 10:07 am)mb134 wrote I was talking to a few of my mates while I was away, and they were all pretty annoyed that they couldn't go anywhere because Arriva weren't operating. I saw lots of people on Facebook also asking if there were any buses running on boxing day, with lots of people surprised to find out that there wasn't even a "Sunday service"...
I can't really see how people wouldn't use the services, people without cars will want to see family and it will be easier than driving to (and parking in) Newcastle for the sales etc.
I don't know how they can say that not one of their routes is commercially viable on boxing day, when the other two operators can run the majority of their core routes to some frequency. Services like the 308, X10/X11, X21/X22, and the two X1s would surely work, even if it was a 30 min/1 hr frequency.
I'd suggest that everyone who uses Arriva sticks a complaint in, and hopefully that'll be flagged up.