(19 Nov 2023, 11:47 am)RobinHood wrote In the face of all local authorities in this area doing absolutely sod all in respect of bus priority schemes, unfortunately the operator is left to pick up and pieces and try to make it work, yet again...

Every one of the authorities and political leaders in this region, already do and will continue to beat bus operators with a stick for not running on time, but not one has done anything meaningful in respect of bus priority.

Congestion unfortunately continues to increase and blight our major towns and cities, with buses end up sat in the same traffic as everyone else.

To boil this down, this proposal is essentially Arriva trying to get these services to work reliably again, which unfortunately means extra time = slower journeys.

Local highways authorities need to play their part, but they never will, as politically it would be suicidal to go against the private motorist.

Expect more of this type of thing to be honest, from all operators.

Yeah honestly can't disagree with it. The sad thing is most the problems are outside of Northumberland who are generally better than others. It's the two council areas to the South, North Tyneside and Newcastle CC who seem to be doing the complete opposite. 

The few through Gosforth being prime examples but the absolute mess of Gosforth Park is just embarrassing now. Every 'upgrade' just makes it worse every time. The sad thing is there's literally a side road which could've been a bus lane to solve everything. Really frustrating and so short minded. 

I really don't have a clue what Arriva can do with the X7/X8/X9 as it's just a complete mess again and is nearly as bad as the 363/364 days. Feel for anyone who has to drive those routes as South Gosforth is no better.

It's all good, they haven't just approved an Aldi on the same roundabout. Oh wait...