(06 Sep 2013, 6:23 am)Andreos1 wrote On a slightly different note, but staying with the Coaster - why has the extension been arranged for the start of the new school term?
It has to be more than just coincidence, that it started at the begining of September, rather than before or during the school holidays.
If you're going to have a major network change, involving both minor and major changes to individual services, you'd have them all on the same date - right?
Some of the minor changes only involved scholars and the normal service that they interwork with (I recall someone mentioning only one journey of the 39 changing and it being scholar-related?), so it would be pretty common practice for all of these changes to happen on the same day so as to avoid confusion.
I do believe either on a morning or evening, the 24 also did scholars/workers services, so these would have to change for the 1.
What I don't understand is why the "Tynedalexpress" was held off by a week, and is starting from 8th September rather than 1st September.