(30 May 2017, 9:04 pm)markydh wrote There are a lot of weird things going on at Slatyford at the moment. There are certain allocations (like E400MMCs on the 71) that are becoming so regular that they can no longer be seen as unusual.

And with Newcastle as whole, as a daily user of many routes depending on where my clients live, I can confidently say that reliability has tanked since last month's changes. For example, I used to be able to catch a 39/40 in West Denton around 9:20 and easily get to my main office for my rough 10:00 start. Now I'm lucky if I get there on time if I leave 15 minutes earlier!

The regular 'made changes to help reliability' post on twitter is laughable, really. No, you made changes to protect or increase your profit margin. Don't insult your customers' intelligence by claiming otherwise. Especially when complaints about unreliability have only increased!