(22 Jan 2022, 12:14 pm)54APhotography wrote Solo's on 39s packed and standing. Given the number of Streetlite parked at Deptford, you would have thought some sense would prevail running Sunday services on a Saturday

(22 Jan 2022, 12:44 pm)54APhotography wrote And there's a home match on. Listening to the elderly passengers they really are fuming, I'm guessing there's nobody (nexus) willing to talk to people at Park Lane, réaction today is very bad.

Looks like a full PVR of Solos too. If its been planned Streetlites, as Dan suggests above, it makes you wonder how many people have ignored the fact the wrong bus is out and that there's a football match on... it's not exactly a big secret in a small City Centre like Sunderland. 

Someone posted this banner from the website onto Facebook... due to our decision to reduce service frequency today, you'll have to wait even longer than what's in a Sunday timetable. What happened to "congestion busting buses"? 

 

(22 Jan 2022, 1:30 pm)Omega54 wrote Also there was a "Hygiene Incident" on the 65, anyone know?

More to the point, why do you need to know?!

(22 Jan 2022, 4:19 pm)Ambassador wrote I don’t see why it’s the responsibility of a public body to support a private companies decision to cut its routes 

Get GNE bods out the office to do it

I agree. If the operator is happy to leave people high and dry, I don't know why a public body should step in.

I know they've made clear that they're running these timetables on a temporary basis "in light of ongoing staffing challenges", but it should have been seen as vital that a customer service presence is available across all channels. Nobody in bus stations, no one on the phone and no one covering Social Media. Customers are being left high and dry.