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(05 Jan 2020, 7:13 pm)OrangeArrow49 wrote I expect the 516 will stay with Gateshead Central Taxis, as they have not had it that long. Don't see the point of the service, not very busy.If you lived on the sections of route that don't have any other bus services you would not be saying that. Maybe if it didn't operate at approx every 63/64 minutes and had a more regular timetable it would gain patronage.
(06 Jan 2020, 8:27 pm)ifm001 wrote If you lived on the sections of route that don't have any other bus services you would not be saying that. Maybe if it didn't operate at approx every 63/64 minutes and had a more regular timetable it would gain patronage.
(06 Jan 2020, 8:36 pm)OrangeArrow49 wrote I would if only a few passengers used it! Admittedly I haven't used the 516 very much, but when I have the passenger numbers have been very low. There is one bus per hour, that is more than regular enough for the passenger numbers. Yes, if the service was more regular it might gain more passengers, I argue that with the 74 (even if curtailed, rather than full route to/from Hexham), but we can't know that unfortunately. Most services in South Shields are operated by Stagecoach, I am sure if the 516 was operated by Stagecoach it would gain more passengers.
(06 Jan 2020, 8:50 pm)AIG20 wrote Whenever I've seen the 516 it has carried nothing but fresh air. If Nexus ever withdrew the service Stagecoach could easily reroute some services, such as the 10/11, 12/12A & 30, or create a new bus service to avoid the roads only served by the 516 being left without a bus service. I'm sure one of the reasons the 516 (or the 16 as it used to be named) was created was so that there would be a bus service on the Coast Road between Redwell Lane and the New Crown as I'm sure there was lots of backlash when Stagecoach service E3 was withdrawn?
I've seen quite a lot of Nexus funded services ran by independent operators running with very low passenger numbers. I don't know how they can afford it? Maybe that's why they aren't ran by any of the "big three".
(06 Jan 2020, 9:03 pm)OrangeArrow49 wrote Whenever I have seen the 516, it has indeed been carrying nothing but fresh air, but when I have used it there has been a few passengers on with me. I was actually going to question if Stagecoach could re-route a service to replace the 516, Nexus seem to waste money funding services that are hardly used and could be withdrawn and replaced by re-routed services by the big three. Strangely the 32A and 84/84A have good passenger numbers sometimes, but even Nexus has told me passenger numbers are higher when a Nexus service is operated by any of the big three compared with independent operators. Does Stagecoach operate any Nexus contracts these days?
When did Stagecoach withdraw the E3? When did the 16 start operating and why did it become the 516? I would like to see another service run alongside the E1. Is the Coast Road in South Shields a continuation of the Coast Road on North Tyneside?
(06 Jan 2020, 8:50 pm)AIG20 wrote Whenever I've seen the 516 it has carried nothing but fresh air. If Nexus ever withdrew the service Stagecoach could easily reroute some services, such as the 10/11, 12/12A & 30, or create a new bus service to avoid the roads only served by the 516 being left without a bus service. I'm sure one of the reasons the 516 (or the 16 as it used to be named) was created was so that there would be a bus service on the Coast Road between Redwell Lane and the New Crown as I'm sure there was lots of backlash when Stagecoach service E3 was withdrawn?
I've seen quite a lot of Nexus funded services ran by independent operators running with very low passenger numbers. I don't know how they can afford it? Maybe that's why they aren't ran by any of the "big three".
(16 Jan 2020, 7:30 pm)Big O wrote Hey, I don’t think I’ve quoted the correct person but the website created wasn’t paid for and I got fed up of chasing them up for it so i deleted it.
I have now left the company.
(16 Jan 2020, 9:02 pm)OrangeArrow49 wrote You have quoted the wrong person. That is a shame, it was a good website.
I am not a fan of Gateshead Central Taxis.
(16 Jan 2020, 9:35 pm)Big O wrote Sorry, bud,
I don't want to slander my former employers but I spent a number of hours working on the site after work, which really upset me. That was the final nail in the coffin for me. Hope Go North-East is better.
(16 Jan 2020, 9:40 pm)Dan wrote You’re a bigger man than some of their employees who were formerly employed by Go North East, who love nothing more than saying how terrible the company was during their period of employment!
(02 Feb 2020, 5:35 pm)Michael wrote Can see a few complaints from the GNE customers then.
Whats the PVR for W1/W1A and W2?
(02 Feb 2020, 5:35 pm)Michael wrote Can see a few complaints from the GNE customers then.
Whats the PVR for W1/W1A and W2?
(02 Feb 2020, 5:41 pm)Dan wrote Probably - ‘tis the nature of the beast though and not many passengers will understand that the local authority provides some journeys so their ticket they’ve bought in the morning may not necessarily get them back home.
Two for the W1, one for the W2.
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(02 Feb 2020, 6:39 pm)park5354 wrote 724/725 might go to Riverside for 33.The W1 passengers will be relieved they won't get back ache from those horrible seats on 724/725. Not been on those 2 but on 722 which has the same interior and the seats were awful except at the back.
709 could be a spare at Washington for 23.
(04 Feb 2020, 9:40 pm)GNE6312 wrote The W1 passengers will be relieved they won't get back ache from those horrible seats on 724/725. Not been on those 2 but on 722 which has the same interior and the seats were awful except at the back.Rarely allocated. They usually end up on little coaster routes.
(02 Feb 2020, 5:54 pm)Adrian wrote It's really up to Nexus to mitigate that when they award contract work like this.
In the past, I've managed to give them enough earache to allow GNE tickets to be accepted on the 83A morning run, and also the 82/83 when Arriva had it on an evening. But its wholly on Nexus. Not the commercial operator or the contracted operator.
