(23 Jul 2016, 11:43 pm)LeeCalder wrote The absolute chaos in Seaburn earlier, things went no where near as smoothly as last year. The rear destinations on the A1 and A2 displaying 'AIR' caused some massive problems, despite the different stopping locations.
There was a large group of roughly 20 people came running off the Vyking on the A1 and onto the A2 at one point.
The rear destinations on the Volvo B7s show 'AIR' as the switch setting on these displays are set to 'F' which automatically picks up which destination code has been entered by the driver (as opposed to looking at what has been manually programmed). This has always been the case.
To allow destinations to be changed more quickly, making the process more efficient, it was requested that the A1 and A2 fell under the same code (AIR) as the normal Park and Ride services.
I fail to see how this would have caused massive issues, when the buses are all packed together and the main focus is the front destination. Not forgetting how many supervisors Go North East had on hand to help passengers (some of whom were present for over 12 hours)... It's a difficult weekend and it's never going to be one which runs without a few hiccups.