(06 Sep 2020, 9:45 pm)Andreos1 wrote To add with what has been said already, I wonder if local events, have any impact?
South Tyneside is on the watch list, Fencehouses has seen a huge upsurge according to the Sunderland Echo.

Assuming S Tyneside locks down and 300 people are self-isolating in Fencehouses, then it could have a major impact on services.
Do you stick a smaller Solo on the 4 to cope with any drop in numbers and allow greater distancing on the 81 etc across Washington by using Mercs?

It was a charity football match at Burnside Club, it's looking quite bleak as it's much more than just Fencehouses. Houghton has been badly affected aswell as I believe someone went on a pub crawl there. Sunderland as a whole is looking poor, much worse than South Tyneside now and I wouldn't be surprised to see a local lockdown there soon.

https://www.readytogo.net/smb/threads/su...05/page-68 - if your interested in Sunderland developments or
https://www.readytogo.net/smb/threads/bo...446/page-5 - for Boro and S. Tyneside.

Also about the driver stuff, if 1 bus driver catches Covid and he goes into the break room with 10 other drivers, who 1 in there ends up positive who went into another break room with another 10 drivers there won't be a bus service at all very quickly since your 21 drivers short for a week at least. But we can't lose that 1 seat...