(10 Sep 2017, 9:34 pm)busmanT wrote 11X and X39 changes/curtailment are hardly major cutbacks - any passengers who used the X39 to Gateshead can easily change buses in Central Newcastle, and similarly anyone who used the 11X.
X22 has changed just on one day per week - on Sunday it doesn't run from Durham (it only ran every 2 hours) but now runs from Chester-le-Street on an improved hourly frequency. With X21 now running on
Sunday, any passenger doing Durham to Metrocentre can catch X21 to Gateshead and then X66 every hour.
Services or runs only benefit passengers if they use them, in most cases where Go North East have changed services passengers can still travel.
It's not only Go North East that makes service changes, Stagecoach North East have taken out almost 30 buses this year, with many services having changed.
Without dragging this on and taking it away from the original point of the original post (which was about being able to analyse passenger trends using the QR data) - whether they're all major cutbacks or not, they're still cutbacks.
Just like the improvements suggested by eezypeazy, aren't all major improvements.
As an example, when early morning trips on the 34/34A were axed a few years ago, GNE didnt make much of a fanfare about it. So it mustn't have been a major cutback.
If eezypeazy hadn't gone all defensive and went on a mission to highlight certain points (that he/she thought positive) from the September changes, I am not sure this discussion would even be taking place.
I certainly wouldnt have needed to try and provide balance to his post.
So... I wonder what will happen, now that technology has moved on and cash payers trips can be monitored?
More consolidation or the reintroduction of more direct services?