RE: Go North East: Latest News & Discussion - February 2015
Re Tom's comment on the 17 running early. There is no excuse for a bus leaving a timing point in the timetable early. However, now each bus stop has it's own set of times, in my experience the times on County Durham stops, (obviously not affecting the 17, but also I think it applies to Nexus stops), whoever works out these things have invented times for stops not listed in the timetable which bear no relation to reality. In County Durham certainly the council have put times on stops which have been incorrectly calculated from the following timetabled point, instead of from the previous one as should be the case. This ignores the fact that recovery time is usually included at several points throughout the route so if you work out a time back from the next timetabled point you may find a time shown which is several minutes after the bus should pass the stop if running correctly according to the timetable, because the bus is scheduled recovery time at the next main stop. But anyone certainly has cause to complain if a bus leaves any point in the company's printed timetable more than one minute early.