(29 Dec 2019, 8:03 pm)cbma06 wrote Was there an Arriva bus parked on the stand?, when I’ve been at DBS waiting for a bus there’s always a arriva bus on the stand where the driver has just plonked it on the wrong stand as the driver wants to get off from doing a shift and the bus I’m waiting for has to go onto another stand even 2 stands away and I’m telling the passengers in front that the bus there waiting for is 2 stands away, it’s to congested
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It’s called an explorer ticket
I was told by DCC quite a few years ago DCC wanted some kind of network ticketing sort of thing like what’s in T&W, but Arriva and GNE need to talk to each over with DCC and it came to no avail, some one might know more
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There's always an abandoned Arriva bus!
The explorer ticket is ridiculously overpriced unless you use it as a one off. As someone who travels between between Bishop Auckland and Gateshead pretty much daily, it would probably cost me over £200 a month in tickets. If they did a weekly or a monthly ticket I might be interested, but as it is, it's cheaper to buy a GNE all zone and Arriva Durham District ticket separately.
(29 Dec 2019, 8:11 pm)Dan wrote 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:
I think you've been purposely ignoring the question just to wind me up!
In all seriousness though, it's good to hear that it should be up and running soon.
Was the issue with Hanover caused by having so many services?