(01 Jan 2014, 3:16 pm)tyresmoke wrote Doesn't take a genius to work out that if you keep changing routes, your passengers get confused and won't use them!
So what would you suggest if a service is not performing.....you cannot just keep running and running it. Just look at quite a few service in Arriva Northumbria area (eh Scott
). Look how they had to revert back when the X4 and X5 were a disaster and how many times they have mucked around with the 57/57A.....that many complaints from Councillors regarding the X4/X5, I am lead to believe Mr De Santis had to ensure the services were corrected.(01 Jan 2014, 3:16 pm)tyresmoke wrote Doesn't take a genius to work out that if you keep changing routes, your passengers get confused and won't use them!
Bit like Whitby town services eh?
(01 Jan 2014, 2:54 pm)tyresmoke wrote Lets not forget the lack of foresight in ordering 13 hybrids and then upping the PVR to 15 a matters of weeks after them entering service! No surprise then that red buses feature daily.
At least the GNE Hybrids are kept on the route they were bought for...unlike another operator......How many Hybrids are on routes other than the 308
(31 Dec 2013, 8:44 pm)tyresmoke wrote Another thing that sticks out to me, is the way they link all of their brands together. You see one of Trent Barton's brands, you know who operates it. Go North East don't have the same link, and I reckon its something that they could do with implementing... TB don't emblazon their name all over the buses, but they all still shout "Trent Barton" at you.
How do they link the brands? If you look at their competitor, to a normal man in the street, how would you know it was either Trent Barton or Yourbus?