(16 Jul 2022, 8:19 pm)Rapidsnap wrote Wonder what people would be thinking that they managed to provide extra buses on the number 1 today (service looked to be running with a few extras thrown in).

However it isn't always a simple case of saying Bob from Percy Main depot going to Chester Le Street to drive a service out of that depot. Bob for example may have no idea where certain routes from a depot go, and before you say put them on the easiest route for example the 21, it turn out that he hasn't been trained on Wright Streetdecks. Then someone else says, give them an Omnidekka, they have them at PM, they know how to drive them. Then you have some frother popping up saying why is there a Scania Omnidekka on the Angel on a Saturday. No matter what they can do they cannot win. Worst case scenario is say Clive from Deptford is sent to Riverside to cover a service, gets allocated a double decker and in a lapse of concentration drives it under a low bridge because he didn't know the route too well resulting bad press, one less bus driver and an expensive repair job.