(22 Jun 2015, 5:25 pm)aureolin wrote Bit unusual for me to defend late running by anyone, but I'd say 6 minutes late on a route like the X21/22, which will be one of the first of the day for the OAPs, is pretty good going. There's more than enough time for that to catch up.

It's the 10, 15 & 20 minute late that tend to bother me, as there's little room to make that sort of time up. Obviously I accept that there may be a completely valid reason for a bus to be so late, outside of the operators control, but my gripe comes from when I get fobbed off when asking for a reason... nowt worse!

I wasn't complaining about the late running, I just added it to the post to add more detail. 

One things, concerning late running, that did annoy the life out of me this morning was my X21 to Newcastle this morning. I boarded a 7 minutes late 7502 at Bedlington (should have been the 8.25 from Bedlington Station), I didn't have a problem with this, what did annoy me was that, when on the National Speed Limit roads, the bus didn't seem like it had anywhere near the power to get there, and when coming back into a 30 it barely slowed down. How is a driver meant to keep a peak time journey anywhere near to time with this pathetic excuse for a bus?! Get 7525 OFF THE X14 and put it on the route it was bought for, and have a good look at 7502. It took three quarters of the length of the A1 stretch to get up to any decent speed...