(31 Mar 2023, 12:12 pm)Aaron21 wrote Still don't get why the 1 was downgrade to StreetLites and not kept as deckers
(31 Mar 2023, 8:33 pm)Dan wrote At the time, Hybrids weren’t planned to be exempt from the CAZ (it was debated at length with operators and the city council).
Stagecoach pushed for them to be exempt and the council relented.
Go North East moved the Hybrids to Consett which dealt with the issue regardless of the outcome. It was a better use of the double-decks too, as the 16 is busier than the 1.
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(31 Mar 2023, 8:33 pm)Dan wrote At the time, Hybrids weren’t planned to be exempt from the CAZ (it was debated at length with operators and the city council).Was it roughly around that time the 1A/1B were curtailed at Gateshead, and became the 1 again?
Stagecoach pushed for them to be exempt and the council relented.
Go North East moved the Hybrids to Consett which dealt with the issue regardless of the outcome. It was a better use of the double-decks too, as the 16 is busier than the 1.
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(31 Mar 2023, 12:20 pm)Chris 1 wrote I would say so.If you think that is bad, you'll have a coronary if you ever read a Tyne and Wear PTE Bus timetable from the late 1970!
Newcastle - West Auckland is a natural and established route. And one that people travel on throughout. Metrocentre - Whitley Bay isn't, and is ran as such purely for operational convenience.
(01 Apr 2023, 2:40 pm)Unber43 wrote https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/nor...t-26602835If the big three and Nexus banged their heads together, easiest option would be
(01 Apr 2023, 7:57 pm)L469 YVK wrote If the big three and Nexus banged their heads together, easiest option would be
GNE:
- 97 - re-instated as was.
- 57 - axed and replaced by 1 & 1A.
- 1 - every 30 mins W.Bay to Newcastle then via Wardley. Does current 306 route between W.Bay and Tynemouth. Curtailed in North Shields or Tynemouth evenings & Sundays.
- 1A - every 30 mins Hadrian Park to Churchill Street then as per 1.
- 307 - via Wiltshire Drive instead of Hadrian Park.
Arriva:
- 51 - via Station Road instead of Wiltshire Drive, evening service withdrawn.
- 306 - via current 1 route between Tynemouth and W.Bay. Full evening & Sunday service to W.Bay, removing evening layover in Tynemouth.
Stagecoach:
- 22 - reduced to every 15 minutes and new QA set up with the 1 & 1A between Howdon and Newcastle.
(01 Apr 2023, 2:40 pm)Unber43 wrote https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/nor...t-26602835Yet another pointless article about the random 1 person who complains
(01 Apr 2023, 7:57 pm)L469 YVK wrote If the big three and Nexus banged their heads together, easiest option would beRight right. So here's a few things.
GNE:
- 97 - re-instated as was.
- 57 - axed and replaced by 1 & 1A.
- 1 - every 30 mins W.Bay to Newcastle then via Wardley. Does current 306 route between W.Bay and Tynemouth. Curtailed in North Shields or Tynemouth evenings & Sundays.
- 1A - every 30 mins Hadrian Park to Churchill Street then as per 1.
- 307 - via Wiltshire Drive instead of Hadrian Park.
Arriva:
- 51 - via Station Road instead of Wiltshire Drive, evening service withdrawn.
- 306 - via current 1 route between Tynemouth and W.Bay. Full evening & Sunday service to W.Bay, removing evening layover in Tynemouth.
Stagecoach:
- 22 - reduced to every 15 minutes and new QA set up with the 1 & 1A between Howdon and Newcastle.
(01 Apr 2023, 10:29 pm)omnicity4659 wrote frequency reduction on 22 is ridiculous, it's a busy route from wallsend westbound - i regularly drive it. it's everything in north tyneside that needs looking at, as everything is dead.I haven't been recently but apparently there's temp lights at Chi Metro causing havoc on the E2 and E6 with Economics drivers often coming off 20+ minutes late. And don't get me started on the delays to the X24 because the Metro's off (although that's a separate issue).
as for delays, bus operators and local authorities need to place more pressure on out-of-control utility companies who just seem to have an endless supply of temporary lights and workers to dig roads up... the lights at wallsend were 4-way to allow for a lane to be taken up for van parking...which could have been parked offstreet.
(01 Apr 2023, 7:57 pm)L469 YVK wrote If the big three and Nexus banged their heads together, easiest option would be57 has had enough changes! Please leave it alone.
GNE:
- 97 - re-instated as was.
- 57 - axed and replaced by 1 & 1A.
- 1 - every 30 mins W.Bay to Newcastle then via Wardley. Does current 306 route between W.Bay and Tynemouth. Curtailed in North Shields or Tynemouth evenings & Sundays.
- 1A - every 30 mins Hadrian Park to Churchill Street then as per 1.
- 307 - via Wiltshire Drive instead of Hadrian Park.
Arriva:
- 51 - via Station Road instead of Wiltshire Drive, evening service withdrawn.
- 306 - via current 1 route between Tynemouth and W.Bay. Full evening & Sunday service to W.Bay, removing evening layover in Tynemouth.
Stagecoach:
- 22 - reduced to every 15 minutes and new QA set up with the 1 & 1A between Howdon and Newcastle.
(02 Apr 2023, 7:05 am)F114TML wrote I haven't been recently but apparently there's temp lights at Chi Metro causing havoc on the E2 and E6 with Economics drivers often coming off 20+ minutes late. And don't get me started on the delays to the X24 because the Metro's off (although that's a separate issue).Did u get around it?
Last week there were FOUR sets of temp lights on the 16 - Grindon, Faber Road, Witherwack and Red House. The ones at Grindon and Red house seemed to be set up by people who had no idea they're on a bus route, let alone one that uses full size buses - you should've seen their faces when I tried getting a gasbus round the ones at Red House! Worst bit was they didn't even clear the area of parked cars
(05 Apr 2023, 9:22 pm)omnicity4659 wrote You gave them time to move them?! I've dragged signs onto kerbs and chucked cones out of the way on numerous occasions in front of them setting them out...!Well, they were on the ball when they realised it wasn't going to end well for their sign.
Drivers using buses to 'nudge' stupidly placed cones out of the way isn't unheard of, either.
(05 Apr 2023, 9:41 pm)F114TML wrote Well, they were on the ball when they realised it wasn't going to end well for their sign.
I did once run over the base of a cone (just clipped it with my wheel) at Springwell and it went flying - spectacular sight