(24 Aug 2018, 6:23 pm)S830OFT wrote Passengers on the Crusader services don't appear to be liking the new announcements. "This is the Crusader 27 service to South Shields" was driving passengers crazy, and with the bus stopping at pretty much every stop it must be extremely annoying, especially for the driver who has to listen to it for the entire journey and back. 

A better idea for informing passengers would be to have the announcements go off at key destinations, for example Heworth Interchange.

Hopefully Go North East change it as it was driving passengers mad.

As someone who uses buses with NSA many times a day, I find that I don't notice it too much anymore. At first it was irritating but now it just blurs into the background. The only time I really notice it too much is when I'm on the X21 when its busy and there are people getting on and off at literally every stop. Hearing "This is the Castles Express X21 service to Bishop Auckland" every couple of minutes for 1 and a half hours makes it really hard to ignore!
The only thing about the NSA that still irritates me is the "where this bus terminates" being delayed for around 5 seconds after the stop name. But thankfully I don't hear that too much because the drivers of the 49 have usually changed to the Winlaton service before we get anywhere near Gateshead Interchange

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