(05 Feb 2021, 7:55 pm)deanmachine wrote The "bus dumping" issue would be solved with an appropriate amount of lay over areas and stands. Park Lane and Gateshead interchange have loads, you rarely see an empty bus dumped on the wrong stand there, despite there being constant driver change overs.

Another issue being is how things are timed for stand allocations, on many stands its a case of as soon as one bus leaves, another should be pulling onto said stand within seconds so if anything arrives early things go into disarray.

Stand allocations don't seem to be taken into account as much as in Tyne & Wear, a classic example being early evening on stand K where the 7, X12 & X21 got timed to be put on the same stand at the same time which was clearly not considered when the GNE Chester-le-Street bound services were shifted from stand B to L and Newcastle bound X12's got put onto stand K with the 7 & Bishop bound X21's. For as long as I can remember stand C has had the X15 (previously 15) and 16A both timed to depart at 08:50 on a Saturday morning.

A major one I've just noticed is the 49/49A are now on the same stand as the 204/265 with clashes (stand G) whilst stand F has only service 52 roughly every 2 to 2 and a half hours, think F is not favoured due to only being suitable to smaller buses so as 49/49A is now typically allocated larger buses I'm guessing it was moved from F to G, probs should've moved the 204/265 onto F as apart from a few peak 265s being decker allocated the vast majority are allocated Solo SRs.