(18 Oct 2015, 12:34 pm)buss14 wrote
i actually agree but the hybrid deckers used on the 308 hae to take a little bit of time to get upto speed as it is the vehicle that is slow not the drivers
Wasn't meaning the 308 BTW, but it needs a PVR increase with added time to improve reliability. The 10 minute service is also a bit of a joke in the mornings with only the arrivals at 0810 and 0820 running every 10 minutes with a 22 minute gap after that at 0842. It would be like GNE advertising a 10 minute service from Cobalt during the afternoons when truth beknown, the only examples would be between 1700 and 1720 and 1800 and 1820.
Arriva need to look at the changes GNE are making for their Stanley Depot services to improve reliability rather than trying to juggle things around to deceive passengers. Moving departures by a couple of minutes will not work in the long term. What is needed is increased recovery / layover time, more vehicles in the PVR and added journey time to cope with high loadings. That X8 route though needs to be split, too long of a route and too many blackspots where if any more time was added, it would turn people away from the route.