(19 Jul 2022, 11:20 pm)streetdeckfan wrote I need to get up to Newcastle in the morning (ironically to pick up some car parts from Mercedes), and I'm seriously contemplating just getting an Arriva day ticket and slumming it on the X12 since I have more faith it'll get me there.We’re back to offering taxi fares and incentives as opposed to public transport incentives as part of hybrid working.
The first X21 from West Auckland only goes as far as CLS, the second is apparently running (but on the off chance it runs will probably be infested with the youth), the third is cancelled, the next two supposedly run but get there after 11, so that's barely even the morning!
Colleagues have no issues with the X39 and 309 and are complimentary about the drivers, the issue we have is connections for colleagues particularly from South of Tyne and Durham, it’s against our sustainability plans but we started to incentivise and support car shares and private hire as we cannot afford to lose valuable face to face days and collaboration time to a lottery of service provision from mainly GNE.