(29 Oct 2022, 7:24 pm)DeltaMan wrote Surely it's time to put a step-back in at Eldon Square on the 21s between 10:00 and 17:00? It would only cost one driver a Saturday if somebody with half a brain schedules it. I'd argue that one extra driver is worth it to save the inevitable loss of passengers the continuous shambles Saturdays are becoming on Durham Road. I've been a victim of it myself recently!Theres no space, with Arriva parking their buses there, Q3's parking there for upto 5 hours, X10's, numerous consett buses.
The 21 is the flagship service. Maybe they should treat it that way.
Really you need to have a longer layover in Chester-Le-Street, Stanley, Consett, Peterlee, Easington Lane, even non-Newcastle services are struggling to keep up time, especially the 65, 20 & 60 too strugle to keep up time, its made every worse now that the 20 is every 15 mins and there is no X20, aswell as the 60 which has always struggled, as soon as you get 5 mins late you're just picking up the other passengers I remember looking on bus times and there were 7 out and 6 of them were bunched up into 2s.
Martjin mentioned something about something which will help them keep on time and name dropped the X1, 21, 60, X45/46 however if you send any of them dead from Newcastle/Consett/Sunderland the one behind just becomes late too, to get from Stanley to Newcastle the other saturday on X30 or X31 was a 3 hour wait due to buses running 1 hour late.
Also the GNE Social Media team, the people who say X service wont operate due to delays, whenever it involves the 21/16/20/60 go NIS they just don't seem to put it on their socials