Disruptions and driver shortages
Disruptions and driver shortages
(21 Oct 2022, 8:58 pm)L469 YVK Not just Arriva, but Coast Road capacity needs sorted for mid week evening NUFC kick offs! Considering that 7x per hour used to run before COVID and now only 4x per hour....even more so with stable crowds since changs at the club. Some queues for buses now still exist after 11pm. The worst used to be over after 10.30pm
Even if GNE & Arriva collaborated and outsourced some special extra journeys to Stanley & JH, that would make a difference.
(21 Oct 2022, 8:58 pm)L469 YVK Not just Arriva, but Coast Road capacity needs sorted for mid week evening NUFC kick offs! Considering that 7x per hour used to run before COVID and now only 4x per hour....even more so with stable crowds since changs at the club. Some queues for buses now still exist after 11pm. The worst used to be over after 10.30pm
Even if GNE & Arriva collaborated and outsourced some special extra journeys to Stanley & JH, that would make a difference.
interest read about a village in Scotland and its " bus service"
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-t...l-63345158
Metro replacement today... shambles. The 901 especially.
At Heworth, they had St James bound Metros off P1 and Airport bound Metros off P2, but aside from a handwritten notice telling you, the staff weren't bothering to split footfall evenly between the two. P2 was extremely busy when I was there, yet I and a few others managed to walk onto an empty Metro on P1.
Upstairs in the bus station, Nexus had decided that both the 900/X900 and the 901 were going to use Stand R. This resulted in the queue being a couple of laps round the inside of that shelter, then outside and right back beyond the public toilets. The staff were all bunched at the top and no coordination of who was after which bus. Utter madness.
There was a high volume of football fans there at the time, including Burnley fans heading over to the SoL. A Nexus bod walked the line and was actually recommending people take taxis, as the next replacement bus would be about half an hour! Then when a 901 eventually turned up, JH Coaches had decided to put an Enviro 200 out, to the bemusement of people stood waiting.
Looking on tracking, everything seemed to be bunching up, with no one bothering to intervene and try and sort the situation out. Unorganised chaos.
Saw this on twitter
"The joys of public transport! I was planning to go to a meeting in Newcastle catching the 1050 Arriva North East 22 to Dalton Park. I abandoned that, I saw it later running 15 minutes late and drove to Dalton Park for the 1115 Go North East X10. Sadly no show. 1220 train full!"
https://twitter.com/PeterShelley2/status...96257?s=20&t=RmjNWTn2JMbgkrBTcnu-wg
Tbf the X10 would have probs been standing like it is regularly!
(22 Oct 2022, 4:29 pm)Unber43 Saw this on twitterThe X10 was cancelled due to 'delayed operation' https://twitter.com/gonortheast/status/1...pPY2R_nrlw&s=19
"The joys of public transport! I was planning to go to a meeting in Newcastle catching the 1050 Arriva North East 22 to Dalton Park. I abandoned that, I saw it later running 15 minutes late and drove to Dalton Park for the 1115 Go North East X10. Sadly no show. 1220 train full!"
https://twitter.com/PeterShelley2/status...96257?s=20&t=RmjNWTn2JMbgkrBTcnu-wg
Tbf the X10 would have probs been standing like it is regularly!
(22 Oct 2022, 4:29 pm)Unber43 Saw this on twitterThe X10 was cancelled due to 'delayed operation' https://twitter.com/gonortheast/status/1...pPY2R_nrlw&s=19
"The joys of public transport! I was planning to go to a meeting in Newcastle catching the 1050 Arriva North East 22 to Dalton Park. I abandoned that, I saw it later running 15 minutes late and drove to Dalton Park for the 1115 Go North East X10. Sadly no show. 1220 train full!"
https://twitter.com/PeterShelley2/status...96257?s=20&t=RmjNWTn2JMbgkrBTcnu-wg
Tbf the X10 would have probs been standing like it is regularly!
(22 Oct 2022, 4:08 pm)Adrian Metro replacement today... shambles. The 901 especially.
At Heworth, they had St James bound Metros off P1 and Airport bound Metros off P2, but aside from a handwritten notice telling you, the staff weren't bothering to split footfall evenly between the two. P2 was extremely busy when I was there, yet I and a few others managed to walk onto an empty Metro on P1.
Upstairs in the bus station, Nexus had decided that both the 900/X900 and the 901 were going to use Stand R. This resulted in the queue being a couple of laps round the inside of that shelter, then outside and right back beyond the public toilets. The staff were all bunched at the top and no coordination of who was after which bus. Utter madness.
There was a high volume of football fans there at the time, including Burnley fans heading over to the SoL. A Nexus bod walked the line and was actually recommending people take taxis, as the next replacement bus would be about half an hour! Then when a 901 eventually turned up, JH Coaches had decided to put an Enviro 200 out, to the bemusement of people stood waiting.
Looking on tracking, everything seemed to be bunching up, with no one bothering to intervene and try and sort the situation out. Unorganised chaos.
(22 Oct 2022, 4:08 pm)Adrian Metro replacement today... shambles. The 901 especially.
At Heworth, they had St James bound Metros off P1 and Airport bound Metros off P2, but aside from a handwritten notice telling you, the staff weren't bothering to split footfall evenly between the two. P2 was extremely busy when I was there, yet I and a few others managed to walk onto an empty Metro on P1.
Upstairs in the bus station, Nexus had decided that both the 900/X900 and the 901 were going to use Stand R. This resulted in the queue being a couple of laps round the inside of that shelter, then outside and right back beyond the public toilets. The staff were all bunched at the top and no coordination of who was after which bus. Utter madness.
There was a high volume of football fans there at the time, including Burnley fans heading over to the SoL. A Nexus bod walked the line and was actually recommending people take taxis, as the next replacement bus would be about half an hour! Then when a 901 eventually turned up, JH Coaches had decided to put an Enviro 200 out, to the bemusement of people stood waiting.
Looking on tracking, everything seemed to be bunching up, with no one bothering to intervene and try and sort the situation out. Unorganised chaos.
Don't think JH Coaches had enough deckers to fulfil the 901 today as they also had the Sunderland AFC Park & Ride service to operate, they have less deckers since GNE won a lot of the Nexus misc contracts, many of the contracts JH now have only require single deckers.
(22 Oct 2022, 6:35 pm)Jimmi Don't think JH Coaches had enough deckers to fulfil the 901 today as they also had the Sunderland AFC Park & Ride service to operate, they have less deckers since GNE won a lot of the Nexus misc contracts, many of the contracts JH now have only require single deckers.
(22 Oct 2022, 6:35 pm)Jimmi Don't think JH Coaches had enough deckers to fulfil the 901 today as they also had the Sunderland AFC Park & Ride service to operate, they have less deckers since GNE won a lot of the Nexus misc contracts, many of the contracts JH now have only require single deckers.
(22 Oct 2022, 6:46 pm)Dan They shouldn’t have put in for a contract that they didn’t have enough buses for. That would have allowed other operators not on the framework agreement, such as Stanley Travel and L&G Coaches, to bid instead.I do agree with this however in the contract did it state
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(22 Oct 2022, 6:46 pm)Dan They shouldn’t have put in for a contract that they didn’t have enough buses for. That would have allowed other operators not on the framework agreement, such as Stanley Travel and L&G Coaches, to bid instead.I do agree with this however in the contract did it state
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(22 Oct 2022, 6:53 pm)Unber43 I do agree with this however in the contract did it stateIt's a 15 minute frequency
- Does it need deckers?
- What Frequency should the vehicles come?
If it didn't state that the service didn't need to be deckers than JH did nothing wrong. However every 30 mins frequency is a bit of a joke for a line which is every 12 mins
(22 Oct 2022, 6:53 pm)Unber43 I do agree with this however in the contract did it stateIt's a 15 minute frequency
- Does it need deckers?
- What Frequency should the vehicles come?
If it didn't state that the service didn't need to be deckers than JH did nothing wrong. However every 30 mins frequency is a bit of a joke for a line which is every 12 mins
(22 Oct 2022, 4:29 pm)Unber43 Saw this on twitter
"The joys of public transport! I was planning to go to a meeting in Newcastle catching the 1050 Arriva North East 22 to Dalton Park. I abandoned that, I saw it later running 15 minutes late and drove to Dalton Park for the 1115 Go North East X10. Sadly no show. 1220 train full!"
https://twitter.com/PeterShelley2/status...96257?s=20&t=RmjNWTn2JMbgkrBTcnu-wg
Tbf the X10 would have probs been standing like it is regularly!
(22 Oct 2022, 4:29 pm)Unber43 Saw this on twitter
"The joys of public transport! I was planning to go to a meeting in Newcastle catching the 1050 Arriva North East 22 to Dalton Park. I abandoned that, I saw it later running 15 minutes late and drove to Dalton Park for the 1115 Go North East X10. Sadly no show. 1220 train full!"
https://twitter.com/PeterShelley2/status...96257?s=20&t=RmjNWTn2JMbgkrBTcnu-wg
Tbf the X10 would have probs been standing like it is regularly!
The last 2 from Blyth to Morpeth appears to have been cancelled tonight.
(22 Oct 2022, 11:03 pm)mb134 Sure I saw it on its way across to Blyth, issues in Blyth with antisocial behaviour as per?
(22 Oct 2022, 11:03 pm)mb134 Sure I saw it on its way across to Blyth, issues in Blyth with antisocial behaviour as per?
(22 Oct 2022, 11:59 pm)omnicity4659 Shows on the website as cancelled, not able to track it on Bus Times due to the outage to see if its correct.
(22 Oct 2022, 11:59 pm)omnicity4659 Shows on the website as cancelled, not able to track it on Bus Times due to the outage to see if its correct.
(22 Oct 2022, 6:53 pm)Unber43 I do agree with this however in the contract did it state
- Does it need deckers?
- What Frequency should the vehicles come?
If it didn't state that the service didn't need to be deckers than JH did nothing wrong. However every 30 mins frequency is a bit of a joke for a line which is every 12 mins
(22 Oct 2022, 6:53 pm)Unber43 I do agree with this however in the contract did it state
- Does it need deckers?
- What Frequency should the vehicles come?
If it didn't state that the service didn't need to be deckers than JH did nothing wrong. However every 30 mins frequency is a bit of a joke for a line which is every 12 mins
(23 Oct 2022, 6:17 am)Dan All Metro Replacement contracts specify Euro 4 vehicles with a minimum capacity of 84, and give a set timetable determined by Nexus.
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(23 Oct 2022, 6:17 am)Dan All Metro Replacement contracts specify Euro 4 vehicles with a minimum capacity of 84, and give a set timetable determined by Nexus.
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(23 Oct 2022, 6:17 am)Dan All Metro Replacement contracts specify Euro 4 vehicles with a minimum capacity of 84, and give a set timetable determined by Nexus.As JH Definitely did not do this
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(23 Oct 2022, 6:17 am)Dan All Metro Replacement contracts specify Euro 4 vehicles with a minimum capacity of 84, and give a set timetable determined by Nexus.As JH Definitely did not do this
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