(24 Feb 2017, 12:39 am)South Tyne Lad wrote Aye, Its a real shame.
What's even worse was that I asked for a Day ticket on PCL Service's so I could use the M1, And was met with a blank face before a few seconds thinking time and all of a sudden came that I had to pay £2, With no ticket issued either....
So I had to pay again on the M1, Which indeed was ran with a Transit, Absoutley no way to tell this was a bus route, Service number was crumpled on the dashboard and ran with a 8/12 Seater Transit with a manual sliding door....
If I ever do it again ( Not likely ) ill be doing the Saturday run as there's a X14 from Thropton which connects with the 16 on a Saturday, Running 1 min behind the M1.
I might do tomorrow, But I honestly cant see them bothering to do anything.
It served the Sainsbury's, But didn't pick anyone up.
They probably have more than 1 Transit, As going by the condition of the one I had on the M1, They could buy 2 of them for £400.
I don't know mind, they should do something because they are paying PCL to run the service so you would expect it to be half decent! Such a shame someone like Travelsure aren't operating it, to be fair it wouldn't even be bad PCL running it if they did it properley.
(24 Feb 2017, 12:50 am)Jimmi wrote LG02FFR which is the one with S1 branding was actually on the S1 on Saturday.
South Tyne Lad's outing was on Tuesday where they would have had the 613 and 885 to run to Hexham in addition to the 15/16, M1/T1 and S1.
Not quite sure what has gone wrong with allocations, it seems like everything is being ran as cheaply as possible. Not certain what the contract specs are but I would have thought that it would require a low floor accessible bus which the LDV which is step entrance is most certainly not, yes technically it's a coach but should still be a low floor bus.
That MPD looks ridiculous, Hunter Bros web address and phone number have been removed but still has www. Plus Tel. Still down the side: https://flic.kr/p/SbSaNc
That's a surprise! Never seen LG02FFR on there for ages! And yeah they usually have the Transit van on the 613, and I'm guessing the T1 was operated by the Transit van on the same day?
Pretty sure the MPD isn't DDA compliant either with the blinds not in operation.