(04 Feb 2021, 9:53 pm)Andreos1 wrote Some excellent points here which really ram home how operators are working (or were working) prior to the pandemic.Don't forget the complete mess Arriva made of the North Tyneside and SE Northumberland services back in 2010. Especially when they withdrew the 44 from Hazelrigg to Whitley Bay. If there was any excuse not yo use the bus and use the car then this was it. Every bus that has served Marden since has been useless taking the best part of an hour or more to get to Newcastle. No we don't want Battle Hill or Cobalt or to go via Tynemouth and North Shields first before a slow dawdle up the coast road.
Once people remove the apparent glitz and glamour or take off the rose-tinted specs, things can be pretty poor.
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