What is the earliest depature of a service in Newcastle/Gateshead on a M-F morning that isn't a night bus?

Is anyone doing this anymore? I luckily don't need to use buses today but it seems there's some thick job doing it today.

X7 Newcastle Departures: 17:15
X8 Newcastle Departures: 17:30, 18:05 (+20), 18:45
X9 Newcastle Departures: 17:53

I'm not an expert at this stuff but it's not rocket science to divert the 18:05 X8 onto the X7 and there's absolute no excuse using driving hours etc.

Absolute appalling service again. Unless things improve fast the X7/X8/X9 are doomed when the new railway comes along as they're unusable.

Least we have Gateshead Central Taxis who can actually run a reliable bus service with modern buses which is about as ironic as it can get I'm saying that.

Sunderland Council may be going bankrupt soon so what will this effect the 700/1, 18/35A, I know they get their money from Nexus but surely SCC give them funds

(name is Council Bankruptcy as DCC and Gateshead etc may go bankrupt too nothing on them yet, but just so it can all go into 1 thread)

You are the person solely in charge of franchising in the region.  You love to micro manage.  

What one or two things would you prioritise?

Try not to repeat what’s already been suggested !

I’ll start with:

1: renumber all the routes ensuring there are no duplicates. 

2: standardise liveries getting rid of route branding (perhaps a nice yellow for Tyne & Wear and a red for the rest of the region!)

Yes I know I’m just reverting back to the pre deregulation era!

Arriva Redcar have had 1534 transferred perm  been comfom

Four new Yutong saloons noted on Riverside this evening - three in silver/pink, one in silver/red. Assuming they are for GNE as there are no registrations or branding on them. X66 plus one spare ?

There's one for GNE but not Arriva but Jesus I haven't been on the Geminis in the rain for awhile at Blyth. 7611 I'd a complete mess with numerous seats down stairs currently out of use including the whole back row because of water pouring in from places I don't even know where it's coming from. 

Took pics in the attachments, shocking. Bring me a Class 156 or even Class 142 than this crap. 

Ps . There was no-one else on at the time so I don't look a nutter haha. 

When did Go North East bin off the lost property checker?

That was a super handy feature

what i think what would be more subtle for 1560/73 is to be allocated to the x3 64 64A X2  as there no manger hills and  located pulsars to the x4 which are more subtle or few of the temsas that are the best ones would work the reason i say this is streetlites are struggling on the longer express work

We are now launching ZEBRA 2, which will provide £129 million to support the introduction of ZEBs in financial years 2023 to 2024 and 2024 to 2025. This will be a single-stage funding competition to award funding over both financial years.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publicatio...ng-zebra-2