(18 Jun 2020, 4:53 pm)Storx wrote I haven't seen them but unless they get some more buses from somewhere it could potentially cause problems at Blyth, Ashington and Jesmond because of the amount of routes ran by minibuses which need a capacity of more than 7 people (1, 2, 46, 51, 51A, 55, 57 and 57A) which have been ran by deckers and full size singles the past week or so.

I don't know the area but could imagine there could be similar problems at Durham and Darlington.

Can't speak for Blyth and Jesmond as I don't know their routes as well, but Ashington could possibly swap some of the 35 and 57 allocations. As we've seen this week, continue with B7TLs on the 57s, and then the 35s with the higher frequency you can look at allocating deckers (7510) and full size singles (1579/80) then fill out with minibuses. 

Hopefully, however, the government relax social distancing to 1 metre which would almost double the capacity on buses. To be honest, as long as people are wearing masks, I don't see a huge problem with 2 people sitting on every row of seats as long as they're all front facing - especially with windows open (i.e one person far left, one person far right, empty aisle seats but people also on the row immediately behind).