(01 Oct 2017, 12:12 pm)stagecoachbusdepot wrote 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.
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?
I agree with you.
But as a proportion of the NE population, the Tyne Valley area is small.
An even smaller representation of that population will use buses.
It goes without saying, that if my suggestion is accurate - then even taking those passengers in to account, those on the main corridors would be in the majority and any research would be skewed in one direction.
It shows the flaws that exist in proportional, representative sampling.
There was a huge discussion in the Passenger Focus thread about it.