Go North East Santa Bus

[Unber43]

The routes for Santa Bus are missing out quite a few areas

[streetdeckfan]

The routes for Santa Bus are missing out quite a few areas

Maybe they've been naughty

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[Drifter60]

The routes for Santa Bus are missing out quite a few areas

It’s a bit of shame Seaham misses out, when the Santa bus idea initially came from Parkside Community Centre iirc, they donated decorations or something?

Having said that they can’t serve everywhere, so someone somewhere always loose out, but it’s in various bits of Sunderland on three days perhaps could have been planned better?

[Rob44]

tHERE IS HELL ON IN LOW FELL AND KIBBLESWORTH!

[Storx]

It’s a bit of shame Seaham misses out, when the Santa bus idea initially came from Parkside Community Centre iirc, they donated decorations or something?

Having said that they can’t serve everywhere, so someone somewhere always loose out, but it’s in various bits of Sunderland on three days perhaps could have been planned better?

Seaham in general is coming across as a place GNE don't care about lately imo.

60, reduced timetable
61, frequency reduced and cross Sunderland links lost including the SOL.
62, scrapped
65, reduced timetable and hourly which is useless
X7, scrapped
71, scrapped (subsidised)
No Santa Bus
No Boxing Day services

Not exactly positive.

[F114TML]

In fairness, the cross-city links on the 61 aren't really missed - reliability went down the toilet in my experience, but everyone in Murton being confused as to where Lukes Lane is was a bit amusing, and scrapping the X7 was just an inevitability really.

[Andreos1]

tHERE IS HELL ON IN LOW FELL AND KIBBLESWORTH!

https://twitter.com/gonortheast/status/1...Whr26S1RDw&s=19

Looks like the customer engagement went out the window... Hope it hasn't affected the perception that GNE are a good company to work for

[nova347]

Seaham in general is coming across as a place GNE don't care about lately imo.

60, reduced timetable
61, frequency reduced and cross Sunderland links lost including the SOL.
62, scrapped
65, reduced timetable and hourly which is useless
X7, scrapped
71, scrapped (subsidised)
No Santa Bus
No Boxing Day services

Not exactly positive.

They got rid of the 238 as well. The 62 had good loadings as well, and the 71s are quite busy all the time as well.

[Unber43]

Seaham in general is coming across as a place GNE don't care about lately imo.

60, reduced timetable
61, frequency reduced and cross Sunderland links lost including the SOL.
62, scrapped
65, reduced timetable and hourly which is useless
X7, scrapped
71, scrapped (subsidised)
No Santa Bus
No Boxing Day services

Not exactly positive.

Really they should have kept either 61 at every 20 mins, hourly to Peterlee or 62 hourly and re-route it via Ryhope/New Seaham then along Station Road as then they've got a link to Sunderland. 

If GNE can ever return to their past frequencys it will be interesting to see whether the 60/65 will go back upto every 12 mins and every 30 mins. Personally I would rather say 10.8m buses at every 10 mins, than 11.5m buses at every 12 mins honestly.

[BusLoverMum]

https://twitter.com/gonortheast/status/1...Whr26S1RDw&s=19

Looks like the customer engagement went out the window... Hope it hasn't affected the perception that GNE are a good company to work for

Woohoo, it missed us out, last year!

[Jonathan93102]

Hello,

I was a bit surprised to see areas with GNE services missed out on the Santa Bus Route this year, yet it seems to be going to places where GNE buses don’t run.

It’s bugged me for a few days so I thought I’d share my opinion. I just thought it would have made more sense to run it through areas where they operate as opposed to areas where they don’t have any services.

Thanks.

[Rob44]

Santa is now visiting kibblesworth....

[Ambassador]

Santa is now visiting kibblesworth....

I hope he's not relying on the 29....

[LVK 404L]

Santa is now visiting Kibblesworth

My 8 year old nephew will be ecstatic.

He was devastated it wasn't coming to Kibby this year so that's a bonus.