(04 Feb 2021, 8:13 pm)Drifter60 wrote Maybe clever marketing from the company really. They’ve said they’re largely maintaining the 12 minute frequency but there will be some gaps of up to 24 minutes; means that for decent portions of the day there still is a ‘turn up and go’ frequent service.
However, it’s not great for the journey that follows a gap of 24 minutes! Could lead to busy journeys and social distancing is either hard to practice or they end up leaving passengers behind. I’m sure I’ll be reassured that this hasn’t happened, however.
I imagine the actual reason, is they’ve just withdrawn certain driver schedules and didn’t want the effort of retiming the other driver boards. I believe the same has happened on the Stanley M routes, one M is just missing, others not retimed. Suppose it’s a limited time only move.
I don't believe the M7 is running at all, if memory serves. I definitely agree with it being drivers duties. They don't have to redraw every drivers duties, just simply start allocating that shift and that one bus board again. Hey presto. Full service. No need to get union validation again as the duties in full have already been checked. Just waiting to be commenced again.