(21 Nov 2019, 2:43 pm)streetdeckfan wrote If Arriva had money to spend on keeping their buses on the road they wouldn't have the issue.
GNE have never really had a problem with branded allocations

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To be fair, it's more with regulating buses and keeping them on time rather than buses being broken down. At least it is at Blyth and Haymarket anyway. Imagine it's the same in Darlington, Durham and Middlesbrough. Personally I'd rather have a bus on time rather than the correct allocation as I know most other people would.

GNE get around it by usually terminating buses short either at the Metro Centre and/or Gateshead which imo is worse from a passenger perspective.