(13 Mar 2016, 6:24 pm)Adrian wrote But it's a commercial decision to slap route names, numbers and destinations all over the side of the bus. Why bother doing that, if you're going to operate in the current way that Blyth do? What about the customers that have perhaps decided to use the service, based on the service spec they've been offered? Not great when it turns into a free for all eh...
Timetables should be realistic and achievable. With my experience of the express services at Newcastle end, I'd beg to differ that this was the case. Covering it up from the Blyth end is just painting over the cracks.
Don't get me started on wrong MAX allocations, because of the way Stockton work their services on a Sunday, I saw 5 buses on the X12 today, not a single one of them was MAX or even had WiFi and now Darlington are allocating Pulsar's to the 26A/X66 on a Sunday in place of the Omnicitys.
Also I hate unachievable timetables, don't get me started on the 5/5A at times! Sunday timetables are a joke, my 7 arrived in Durham at least 5 minutes late as it couldn't keep up with the demands of the timetable and it's the same every Sunday on the 7 and 8 with the latter runs stupidly late at times on Sunday's, 20 odd minutes late is the worst so far.
Oh and I'm sick of getting 1405 on the X66/X67 with WiFi that hasn't been set up!