(14 Sep 2023, 9:37 pm)Shrek wrote They haven't been too bad recently, a few cancellations since they all moved from Walkergate, but people like to complain and I think the people in those areas think it's only the 43/44/45 which are seeing cancellations which clearly isn't the case.

I hadn't realised that Ashington were doing some boards, that makes sense now.

Yeah that's what I thought if I had to be honest.

(14 Sep 2023, 9:47 pm)mb134 wrote I have a feeling some of the Blyth issues are vehicle related as well as driver. If you take 7632 today, the 1720 306 does not run onto the 18:48 45 usually, and looking at previous days the 44/45 stint evidently comes from depot so I'm assuming there was no vehicle available for the driver on the 18:48 45?Similarly, this morning, 7606 appeared to fail on the 09:10 306 to Whitley Bay with nothing sent to replace it. It then made it about 1 stop on the 10:29 X9 before being replaced by 7629, then itself replaced 7506 on the X10/11.  

Shift wise, from the looks of it, journeys don't seem to get dropped until around the 9-10am mark, and I haven't seen any late evening journeys missing. It looks like they are prioritising covering journeys that most people rely on to get to work in the morning, and the last buses of the day, and then trying to spread resource as best as possible surrounding that.

Not going to lie, I do have a feeling there might be vehicle issues involved aswell. I know when I was looking the other day, everything seemed to be on the road which could be on the road.

The school boards at Blyth really aren't helping things either which I have a feeling might be the main reason for evening peaks going to pot as it's taking buses out which then are pretty much hopeless as they're miles away.

Mind there has to be serious questions on why the X30 is running when the core routes are being messed up completely. I've just noticed that the 17:45 X30 ran which was the exact same time one of the X7's was cancelled tonight. Poor allocating that imo and it's the exact same timing give or take.