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(25 May 2024, 3:21 pm)Rapidsnap wrote Buses running late, or not turning up has been happening for years in fact it would have been happening since the bus was invented and it's not a problem unique to Go North East. Least in the days of modern technology you know if it's going to turn up or not. So no matter how many letters you write to Nexus etc whining that this bus was 1 minute and 25 seconds late, it won't change a damn thing. Anything and everything can make a bus run late whether intentional or not. Just accept the fact it's something you cannot control and move on, trust me from my own experience it's less stressful.
(26 May 2024, 7:18 am)R852 PRG wrote Don't be such a tease. Do tell us more.
(26 May 2024, 8:55 am)Lewispark1509 wrote Late last year when both GNE and Stagecoach were both doing 901's down Heworth, one of my good friends at Walkergate (not gonna name drop him so we're gonna call him John for now), was waiting layover time at Heworth when Dan approached him. Dan tried to get John to do his running board (John assumes it was because it was a busier run and Dan wanted out of it), but John rightly refused and said "you don't tell me what runs to do, my running board tells me what runs to do". This touched a few of Dan's buttons and made him throw a tantrum saying he would report John. John laughed and said "do it" and closed his doors on Dan and just sat there, like he said himself, until he was due out on his own run. John said the depot got the complaint, but everyone in the Stagecoach depot was just making fun of Dan because of it.
(25 May 2024, 8:06 pm)Storx wrote Obviously we'll never know the answer but it'll be interesting to compare the differences from now to say 10 / 20 year ago. I know the 363/364/X24/X25 used to be absolutely notorious for bad timetabling back in the day and so was the 308.
Ironic because both are as bad as ever and it's the exact same places; South Gosforth / Peter Barratts / Corner House / Whitley Bay.
(26 May 2024, 9:53 am)Shrek wrote I remember back in the late 90s and early 2000s sitting on the 44 for more than half an hour before we'd manage to get out of Newcastle as the traffic was that bad. That was a weekly occurrence for me on a Friday.
(26 May 2024, 9:20 am)Dan wrote Sorry Lewis, but I think that story is as fictional as the name you’ve given your friend…
Whilst it isn’t uncommon for drivers to swap duties when they work for the same company, it simply wouldn’t happen between two different operators.
Funny to hear either way!
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(26 May 2024, 9:53 am)Shrek wrote I remember back in the late 90s and early 2000s sitting on the 44 for more than half an hour before we'd manage to get out of Newcastle as the traffic was that bad. That was a weekly occurrence for me on a Friday.
(25 May 2024, 7:27 pm)Lewispark1509 wrote Never even met him but after hearing a lot of stories about him he doesn't seem like a nice bloke at all.
(26 May 2024, 10:54 am)MurdnunoC wrote I believe you. I once witnessed him munching on pick n' mix whilst filling his cup up to the brim at Wilko. No wonder they went bust. Never trusted him after that.
(26 May 2024, 11:13 am)MurdnunoC wrote Looks like Lewispark1509 has opened a can of worms here.
I wonder how many more people that wheelin'-dealin', pick n' mix stealin', dirty son of a gun has managed to wrong on the forum?
(26 May 2024, 8:26 pm)Rapidsnap wrote I photoed Dan driving and he caused my camera to explode with his psychic powers.
(27 May 2024, 10:52 am)Rob44 wrote Regarding his psychic power he once convinced everyone on here that small independent operators were the work of the devil, especially if they didn't have the appetite run " commercial services" like GNE or ANE. Then to make us all look stupid he began to run his own small independent bus company with no commercial services!! I feel violated!
(27 May 2024, 9:05 pm)mb134 wrote Can only assume it's a Coast Road express service, obviously can't be an all stops service because they are famously unable to handle the slip roads like the Olympians could.
(28 May 2024, 5:22 am)Ianthegoon wrote Don't forget, though, that it absolutely has to serve Hadrian Park and Wiltshire Drive - so much untapped potential in those places .....
(18 Nov 2024, 7:10 am)L469 YVK wrote Something needs to give on the 309. Yes going through High Farm only adds 2-3 minutes on paper and probably hugely profitable & attractive to passengers.
But that 'wiggle room' to make up journey time lost on earlier parts of the route when it used to run via Selby Gardens / Rising Sun no longer exists as High Farm is too tight and built up, not forgetting the extra passengers.
GoNE either need to cut their losses and put the daytime journeys back via Selby Gardens / Rising Sun or increase PVR including Sundays!
(19 Nov 2024, 10:38 am)lewisparker1509 wrote It's not the route that needs fiddling, it's the times. No point sending it the old route as the 306 and 308 already run that section. Makes much more sense sending the 307 and 309 via Station Road and Mullen Road, so two services each serve either section. Having all the 300s go the exact same way bar one is pointless.
