(15 Sep 2022, 9:16 pm)Drifter60 wrote It doesn’t really matter - GNE are saying the cause of delays on the 65 route are because, at least in part, high passenger numbers. A route they’ve just ‘temporarily’ cut back to hourly instead half hourly. So not only are customers getting less buses per hour, they’re now getting more delays because two bus loads of people are trying to get the one service. ‘blaming’ or ‘reasoning’ it’s just semantics really. Outcome is the same. Now some would say the transparency of GNE is good, but it also highlights the lack of foresight of cutting the timetable back without thinking of knock on effects or mitigation.The 20's have been rammed going through Houghton.
On a similar note, a friend of mine tells me there was 20 running through Houghton today with ‘Bus Full’ on the blind around 3:45/4:00 this afternoon. Again a route that’s already down to every 15 minutes from its previous higher frequency (every 10-12 minutes) on top of the fact they’ve ‘temporarily’ removed service X20 (and permanent withdrawal of the 55 route) on the same corridor. Let’s just hope a few of these temporary changes can be reverted sooner rather than later.
And aswell there was at one point before bus times went down only 2 60's tracking on route out of the 6 that must have been a nightmare, there was been 7 out of 11 56's today, aswell as a few 20's and berries missing aswell.
If Deptford this bad, got knows how they're getting on in Washington.