(11 Sep 2022, 8:43 pm)Unber43 wrote Both Lines of the metro are awful.

its not just inside Buses/Metro its outside vandalism of smashed windows have just got worse, Deptford have had 35's smashed, X1 smashed, 20's smashed, 60's smashed, 61 mashed, there were 3 out of 4 65 buses were hit in one day according to a driver. 57's have been hit, 49s, 1's have been aimed at. Tonnes of Arriva buses have been hit aswell https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/1...incidents/

https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/2...mcdonalds/

Not surprised to see Crook mentioned there, heard it's like the wild west there lately on another forum with kids coming from other towns in particular Bishop and there's been a lot of trouble up there with lack of any police presence.

I know the pit villages between Durham and Peterlee are particularly bad aswell around the Ludworth / Wheatley Hill area aswell, quite often see Arriva buses pulled out down there.

Not surprised at the Houghton area being a particular bad area, seen there's been an abandoned pub on fire today near the famous Fencehouses which has been already targeted by arson in the past.

The pit villages are a bit of a mess lately, politics no doubt being a major cause of it and boredom with lockdown.