(01 Oct 2017, 9:14 am)Andreos1 wrote I am one who prefers the real-life, kinaesthetic thing, whether it be books over a kindle or a paper timetable over a digital one.
Whether I have that real physical thing is another matter, as I can't remember the past time I bought a newspaper.
However, to get back to the point you made about the survey (I won't touch on proportions or any of that survey jazz that got eezypeazy in all of a tizz on that hilarious night a few years back), I wonder if the model bus companies employ, render timetables obsolete.
On the main corridors, the buses are advertised as operating an 'x' minute frequency. Do punters really need to consult a timetable, if the bus is going to turn up in 10/12 minutes time?
Obviously this frequency operates at those frequencies during the day, when the older generation are possibly the ones travelling the most and are subject to questionnaires and surveys.
In the latter parts of the evening, when frequencies drop and say younger types are commuting or coming home from a night out, then the digital versions of the timetables may be accessed.
All hypothetical, just trying to apply some reasoning and logic to the decision.
What about the sizeable proportion of people who don't happen to live on a main corridor, or have to try to make connections due to the rationalisation of services? Look at something like the 10 - there's only actually a 10 minute frequency along a small proportion of the route with various far less frequent spurs beyond that. You could of course still say, there's a bus from Corbridge every half hour so just go to the stop and wait...
I think its more likely a move away from paper to digital, rather than a move away from checking a timetable - years ago many services operated more frequently than they do now. There's always been a mix of 7-12 minute and 30 min plus frequencies.
(01 Oct 2017, 8:54 am)Dan wrote Timetables which are now out of date shouldn't be stocked on-bus any more.
Someone needs to tell Nexus then (if they haven't already) as they are all still readily available in interchanges, as if they were the current versions.
Would be interested to know if your earlier reference to Stagecoach area guides were the fold-out Bus Guides, or something else?