(05 Sep 2021, 10:03 pm)Andreos1 wrote Few more missing tonight too.
Last minute tweets of course.
The last X1 beyond Washington is also cancelled. Good luck to those needing to get beyond Washington (where the 23:30 run terminates). https://twitter.com/gonortheast/status/1...18662?s=19
I'd hope the 23:30 was extended. I'd hope passengers were informed earlier than 5mins before the 23:00 was due to set off (assuming there had been a tweet about the inbound run an hour or so earlier).
Whilst I’m sure that Go North East will do all they can to extend the 23:30 beyond The Galleries, it really isn’t as simple as doing all you hope for:
- will the driver have sufficient driving hours to continue to Newcastle?
- if they did, would the driver have sufficient hours rest until their next shift?
- does the driver actually want to stay back beyond their booked finishing time as overtime?
Again, there’s no disputing how poor this is (and is something happening across the industry - which really goes against all bus operators are trying to achieve) but things really aren’t that black and white. I’m sure bus companies wish they were.
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