(03 Apr 2015, 7:57 pm)aureolin wrote Thankfully I got a lift to and from mine today, so haven't had to bother with any buses in Durham. The one X12 I seen was fairly packed, and it was only passing through Coxhoe at the time.
The point about weekday loadings is a very good point, and it's not limited to Good Friday. I can understand not running a Mon-Fri timetable (because of work services etc), but it should be a Saturday timetable at a minimum. I was briefly at the Galleries bus station earlier today, and there were floods of people waiting for various buses. Nothing like your regular Sunday. The Galleries itself was packed too, and I noticed a few friends on Facebook commenting that they couldn't even get parked.
Tomorrow is going to tell a tale I feel. Easter Sunday, and neither Arriva or Go North East are putting extra services on for the derby. Yet look at all the extra services that were put on for the stadium concerts.
Not just limited to Arriva, but there is Christmas to think about too.
Every year, the same posts are made on social media pages (I can't see it being limited to just that either) from workers of some kind, complaining they cannot get to major employment centres, due to the lack of public transport.