(08 Jul 2021, 4:22 pm)Adrian wrote Surprised to see a whole service knocked on the head, taking it down to hourly Newcastle to Middlesbrough. Especially when Nexus contracts and Arriva work is still being covered. You'd think their own commercial routes would take precedence.
Everywhere seems to be getting hit by track and trace pings at the moment, but we should remember that bus operators started dropping the right to maintain social distancing on board about 6 weeks ago now, convincing us it was a safe move. Despite rising case numbers, and evidently requests for staff to enter isolation.
It's more of a Riverside issue apparently, they can continue to cover the Nexus and Arriva stuff because Chester le Street and Deptford haven't been effected as bad. Although all depots are suffering with these Track and Trace pings.