(07 Dec 2015, 12:24 pm)Dan wrote I think you'll find citaro5284 and I were making tongue-in-cheek comments regarding the withdrawal of this trip, as it had previously been suggested that Arriva and Stagecoach (unlike Go North East) have stable networks and don't chop away at individual trips which aren't profitable... Nothing to do with Go North East staff suggesting "everything Arriva does is bad" at all.
I'd take a more reliable bus service which requires connections over an unreliable service every day of the week. I suspect the majority of customers on this route feel the same way, as I've seen very few complaints about this amendment. Even users of this forum who live in Lanchester have been in favour of this change.
If you're referring to the comments I have made in the past, I'd like to kindly ask you to get your quotations correct. My grievance with cutbacks has been with routes being axed (such as 65/98/98A, the 64 being turned into a ridiculous run which is next to useless, the reduction of the 95 to hourly (something which it hasn't been for as long as I can remember) etc etc.)