(19 Jun 2022, 6:44 pm)Unber43 wrote Look at the 8 today from Sunderland, the 10:11 didn't run, 11:11 did, then there wasn't one till 14:11. They're every hour, no hourly service should be cancelled.
Im not saying GNE have the least cancellations, while there may be 4 in a row canceled which is bad, the way they go around it is good and how do you know they're not as bad? SC & arriva don't supply a list.
Why does it always have to be comparative to not being as bad (or worse) than X? For a Sunday service, the provision on some routes today has been nothing short of a shambles.
Like I wrote yesterday, this has been going on now for 8+ months and it's continuing to cause the public a massive inconvenience. Whilst I think at the start, there'll have been a degree of sympathy for COVID related absence, the situation has gone on that long that sympathy has turned into frustration, with seemingly no end in sight.
We know that other bus operators, railways and airlines are impacted, but what are they doing about it? What are they doing to not only attract people to come and work for them, but the retain the staff that they're recruiting?
We can talk about lists vs no lists, but the reality is the same and the customers still suffer. The bigger worry now is that this is very much in danger of becoming the norm, and that doesn't stand in good steed for the future of public transport.