(23 Sep 2022, 8:52 am)Dan wrote Efficiency and cost. It's more efficient to run the X21 from Riverside (with reliefs at Gateshead).One thing that annoys me is that 21/X21 change when coming back from newcastle southbound.
The remote reliefs are presumably factored into the tender price of the 25 and 28/29, and the 58 is a short-term thing (will eventually return to Riverside) until the staffing situation improves at Riverside.
Why not just do it when its heading to newcaslte then they don't really need to waist time putting their code in, another thing is changing drivers going to Newcastle imo is better from a passenger perspective rather than waiting for two 21's then they just say Gateshead on the Display seems a bit pointless. Same for the 20, they now change drivers at Stand L, whereas if they changed from Stand E?, they could just but their code in when in Park Lane, instead of the driver having to put his code in for the 5 min journey between Stand E & Stand L.
(23 Sep 2022, 8:26 am)NL62WVW wrote 10 or 11 as far as I'm aware, most drivers on 21 were moves off the 6 & 12 rota it thinkAs Storkx (sorry if I got the name wrong) said I wouldn't want to drive down the A1 daily to work, especially with all the traffic.
Does anyone know the Rota pattern for Gateshead now?