(31 Aug 2022, 10:30 pm)Unber43 wrote They are waisting so much money on changeovers.
They might as well extend the 71 to every 2 hours Washington & a new pinks link every 20 mins between Washington & Chester-Le-Street, the 83A route which would take around 30 mins.
Because they could do 2 71's easily if the CLS to Washington was about 30 mins each way. Then on the 34 they could do 4 34's then 83A.
While it may be longer than the current run dead time from the Depot it would keep changeover at CLS on 34/83A. It would imo just try to run something instead of wasting fuel.
Isn’t service 71 secured service?, so the timetable and route is solely down to DCC and not GNE, highly doubt DCC will pay for another bus and driver so GNE could change/extend the service to Washington etc…, it would be all factored in the bidding of the contract for changeovers etc for what needed by the bus company who won the contract.
By what has happened in the past from other depot closures, example: Philadelphia depot, the fall out afterwards was practically almost no network was left since OK was took over and practically all local work was amalgamated into longer distance work and the rest of GNE unprofitable routes were put in the hands of the local authorities still trying to pick up the pieces, this is what will happen on most of Chester network if not already done so via DCC secured work.
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