(04 Apr 2015, 1:18 pm)Jimmi wrote Can't stand it when people just go on random rants about how crap Arriva or any other operator any time there bus is a few minutes late. If you are going to complain about any operator on here it should be constructive criticism as I feel there should be a reason behind your argument such as the MAX Omnicitys not having a full refurbishment quality valid argument would be "I don't like the colour scheme it just doesn't look right" that is fine in my opinion whereas "Stupid penny pinching Arriva you are crap" is not constructive criticism in my mind.
People always find excuses for Go North East not putting buses with enhanced features such as WiFi but everytime a non MAX bus turns up on a service even when people have no idea as to why the allocation has happened it ends up becoming another Anti Arriva argument. Sorry to say this but it's true and some wonder why gtom was so vocal when it came to the allocations on the 21.
I think some of us need to rethink the way some of us think and some opinions need to be balanced and I think we have to try and stop taking one operators side, although that is difficult at times when if like me you can only realistically use one operator as the others don't operate in your area.
This is exactly how I feel about posts on the Go North East section of the forum, and it's even more difficult when you are limited to what you can say but know some of the posts are utter garbage...
It's certainly not unique to Arriva, and you'll find it's mainly the same people with the positive and negative comments about the same operator. I can certainly guess who's going to moan about something and be proven right at some point..!
By no means do I think we should all agree, but we should at least aim to see the alternative side of the argument and listen to all points made.