(29 Oct 2022, 7:34 pm)Unber43 wrote Theres no space, with Arriva parking their buses there, Q3's parking there for upto 5 hours, X10's, numerous consett buses.Space in Eldon Square is a terrible excuse not to do anything. A sensible operator would do a step back.
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
Send the buses round the block in the unlikely event of arriving on time during Saturday daytimes. What is more likely to happen is they'll arrive 15 mins late and depart Eldon Square on time. At least give the drivers a fighting chance