(23 Sep 2023, 7:01 pm)Thomas12 wrote I tell you what, Go North East are a complete disgrace.
No service on the Q3 from Newcastle to Great Park for two hours this evening.
A service 1 was supposedly only going to Percy Main, and turned passengers going further away. Yet when it got to Percy Main, a driver is waiting to take over and it continued to Whitley Bay. Then again, I'm lucky it turned up at all as it never usually does. The last services are cancelled again today.
The Coast Road services from both Arriva and Go North East are a disgrace, yesterday both the 23:00 307 and 23:15 308 failed to operate. I give up waiting to see if the 23:45 309 would come, and got a taxi instead.
These companies are shocking, and some action needs to be taken against them. At Stagecoach South, they were forced to give passengers free travel due to unreliability - same should happen here.
Source about Stagecoach South offering free travel: https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-new...el-7841455
Not excusing Arriva but it appears 7501 was having problems and was running 30 minutes late, until it was swapped with 7602, which ran 30 minutes late in both directions.
Obviously they wouldn't do something stupid like allocating 7501 the day after, for it to clearly have the same issue again and running 20 minutes late for no reason, to then run 7501 later in the same day for it start running 32 minutes late for absolutely no reason again.
I assume Blyth is short of buses and not just drivers.