(23 Sep 2022, 8:44 pm)Unber43 wrote Have they? I haven't seen anything about them, but does TransDev even made a profit.
Wonder how Team Pennine are doing the most advertising I see for TransDev is when they have free/£1 ride on the harrogate electric buses.
Can't comment on profits but there's been quite a few 'temporary' timetable cuts. The 36 the flagship route for example used to be every 10 minutes and it's down to every 15 minutes now.
They've got their lists though aswell - https://www.transdevbus.co.uk/harrogate/service-updates. The 36 has been down to every 30 minutes today - copied below
Friday 23rd September
#The1
Harrogate to Pastures 1.21pm
Pastures to Harrogate 1.50pm
The1B
Harrogate to Eastfield 2.31pm
Eastfield to Harrogate 2.57pm
The 1C
Harrogate to Carmires 3.51pm
Carmires to Harrogate 4.16pm
The 1D
Harrogate to Pastures 9.21am
Pastures to Harrogate 9.50am
#The 7
Harrogate to Leeds 2.10pm,4.15pm
Leeds to Harrogate 4pm, 6.20pm
#The36
Harrogate to Leeds 7.35am, 9am, 9.25am, 9.55am, 10.55am,12.55pm, 1.25pm, 2.25pm, 2.55pm, 3.25pm
Leeds to Harrogate 7.40am, 8.55am, 9.55am, 10.25am,10.55am, 11.55am, 1.55pm, 2.25pm, 3.25pm
Starbeck to Leeds 6.23am
Leeds to Starbeck 4pm, 4.30pm
(23 Sep 2022, 9:25 pm)Jimmi wrote I went off using the service after intending to catch it from Leeds to York one Sunday when they only operated half a service all day and had to sprint across Leeds to catch a train to meet a connection at York to continue to Darlington.
I've heard accounts that the York routes are (or at least have been) pretty bad for cancellations from driver shortages and its been an issue even before the global shortage and it was the more rural routes that seemed to get shafted, things quickly went to hell after they took on former Stephensons of Easingwold routes and drivers quickly jump ship and was always the 31X was always the casualty at the time with the section between Easingwold and Helmsley only operating every 2 hours so was frequently left with a 4 hour gap in service whilst ZAP would carry on without issue, I also suspected that during a time when a lot of ZAP B7TLs were off they nicked the B10BLE's off the 31X and instead allocated them to ZAP.
Thanks for confirming, I've read stuff about issues not sure where it was but came across as almost begging for sorry. It's all disappeared now, any reference of it just doesn't exist. The fact they're begging people to run a route in a few weeks time with a £3k bonus and the absolute revolting slavering towards CT Plus begging their driver's to join doesn't shout confidence though especially when there's major cancellations on the 36 (above) already.
https://www.transdevbus.co.uk/teampennin...s-operator - CT Plus mentioned above.