(29 Dec 2019, 8:01 pm)streetdeckfan wrote I'd pick something else of my list of things that irritate me! I could go back to whining about the app, or the lack of multi operator tickets in County Durham, or my dislike for the placement of the white stripe on the E400s.

The list is literally endless!

For everyone's sanity... All being well, the current plan is to have the announcements re-enabled on service X21 in line with the service changes taking place on 26 January, yes.

I've purposely ignored the questions about Next Stop Announcements as I feel it's a very limited audience that's interested in them, but now some progress is being made... They'd have been re-enabled sooner, but for the past two months, there have been issues with Hanover's equipment that their software development team have had to rectify, before their field engineer could make a start on repairing the faulty systems (every single bus in the fleet, so a huge widespread issue that can't be fixed overnight). This is also the same reason for the Next Stop Announcements on the new X30 buses not working. Completely out of Go North East's hands, and, as with all suppliers, you're on a waiting list.

Providing all of these issues are fixed in time, announcements will be programmed for: