(14 Jun 2022, 3:38 pm)Ambassador wrote Shortages out of CLS seem somewhat underestimated today.The services were an absolute farce yesterday as well,
Left the car at home and waited 30 mins at 7am for a 21. 4 weren’t tracking and the obviously two turned up. Packed,
Heading back home this afternoon there were equally huge gaps and it appears lots of Durham runs were cut with my 16.12 ex Newcastle pulling into stops and apologising there’s no drivers for Durham as it’s tracking as a Durham bus ex Newcastle buy curtailing at CLS.
Yet nothing on cancellations
I had to use a few 21's as multiple trips on the 25 were cancelled (including one with no notice of a cancellation anywhere), I ended up with a driver who seemed to do his best to run late presumably in the hope of being turned at Gateshead which sure enough happened and were made to get onto another 21 which didn't go into Eldon Square and booted the passengers off at the bottom of Percy Street where the X63 stops and bus went off NIS.
For added fun heading home, website showed a different X21 trip as starting from CLS instead of Newcastle than what happened in reality.