(14 May 2020, 8:47 am)Michael wrote Martjin Gilbert confirmed last night on his live stream:


1: GNE 2-3 weeks away from bringing in extra buses for their services

2: Some slight twicks to routes will go ahead in the next few weeks - the ones which were due in May - the changes rumoured where the 8 moving to Chester and Chester locals and Cathedral buses moving to Consett in exchange.


Video here: https://www.facebook.com/100009920923911...9920923911

Great to hear, and quite a big surprise that there wasn't a surge in passenger numbers yesterday.
When they say they'll be getting back to running almost all of their services, I wonder if that will involve running the X21 to West Auckland again. Hopefully they do because the few times that I've travelled down I had to use the Arriva 6 and passengers certainly weren't taking notice of social distancing (probably because the route has gone from 7 buses per hour to just one so there isn't really room to spread out)