(01 Aug 2015, 1:42 pm)Dan wrote Haha - well I only tend to moan about the Metro now when it's over 12 minutes late!
Appreciate it's probably more irritating for you as you're the one who has to take into consideration the delays on services 5/5A prior to travelling, though.
I am one of the only members who even sees the service in question with most of the only other people who experience the service is Darlington drivers. A fair few use the Metro so discussion can be struck on here about reliability whereas I am basically talking to myself.
They actually made timetable "improvements" recently but all these changes achieved was it made the service run even later.
Additionally from the end of the month the service will be diverted to serve Hitachi in Aycliffe which will add an additional 3 minutes onto the timetable meaning it will now take around 40 minutes to get to Darlington! This is so long that it would be faster to get the 7 and walk the extra distance home, could even get the 7 from Darlington - Aycliffe and catch the 5 from there it will take that long.
So my journey takes longer than it really needs to be and the reliability makes using it even worse.