(02 Feb 2021, 8:12 pm)JP6004 wrote How is it naff if it meets the demand? Check timetable then you wont have to wait in the cold 

I’m sure buses every 15 minutes meets demand. There is zero demand for buses to run on a 12-12-24-12 frequency, at different times each hour. Nowhere in the press release for the timetables is this odd frequency mentioned. In all my years of bus travel I’ve never seen something similar not had anyone on this forum noticed it, who usually notice any GNE activity in excruciating detail. Why on Earth would anybody even think the check every single journey when they’ve had turn up & go for decades? Even if they check the new timetable to learn they can catch the xx:34 to get to town at xx:05 - oh heck the xx:34 runs at 10am but not 11am. 

Turn up at the stop and 12 minutes has become 15, no worries, there’s a pandemic, 12 has become 24? I’ll get a taxi back, ta. 

The ‘bus is a bus, be grateful it’s even there’ attitude is tiresome. It’s either a public service, then it’s ran purely functionally - or it’s a privatised system, provide a decent service or don’t be surprised when your customers don’t come back.

I think GNE get a lot of unfair scrutiny on this forum - Stagecoach seem to coast on by and Arriva are running buses literally in another operator’s livery and drop random journeys daily. GNE have done a lot right in the new leadership, this just seems a basic ball drop.

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(02 Feb 2021, 8:46 pm)streetdeckfan wrote And what about those of us who have a half hourly service even during normal times.
I suspect we just die

I think you’ve missed the point.