(16 Jun 2022, 9:22 am)Adrian wrote Two of the commuter runs into Newcastle cancelled too. Maybe services like the 25 are an easy target not to cover now, as they're not seen as doing 'well' financially, but will they be going forward?
I suppose the downside of contracting/providing secured services, is that the local authority will normally want some form of financial compensation or service credits where the service isn't ran. There's no where near that level of scrutiny on commercial services, as passengers are very much without a collective voice.
Also for the third day in a row, the 17.39 #50 from Durham has been cancelled, which is really poor. I normally use that or the one an hour earlier, and it's generally the same people on board each day, so it just goes to show that in doing so they're impacting the same users over and over.
It certainly felt that way to me when I used the services and viewed the cancellation list on Monday, list included multiple trips on services 25 & 28/28A binned off, yet not a single planned cancellation was listed for the 21 or 34... in the addition multiple trips on services 8 & X21 were fully cancelled or partially cancelled on top of that including consecutive evening trips on the former.
The 8 was hit hard again this morning with a number of morning journeys not operating or only doing the Stanley to CLS section.
(16 Jun 2022, 12:48 pm)Ambassador wrote CLS is horrific yet again, there’s a 35 minute gap at Gateshead and it was just as bad this morning,They're heavily pushing the narrative of roadworks in Newcastle for disruption causing that, or at least they were the other day.
There’s two angels parked up at Gateshead but nothing on the cancellations. They’re just outright lying now