(13 Jan 2025, 5:29 pm)Iamtheone8483748 wrote Those 2 E400s were joined by a third at roughly 15:50. In which the driver pulled in the back and came in front of the 100+ passengers waiting to shout that the 16:20 16 was cancelled alongside the next X5/15. This was after the 15:27, 15:35 (X5), 15:45 and 16:00 16/16As did not show up. Then of all three E400s went, presumably too late for a scholars service so I do wonder what they were doing there.

That just makes things even more of a slap to the face for those waiting and I also wonder what the deal was and ideally the traffic commissioner should be too. If that's just the size of the queue from the bus station, I dread to think how those waiting at all the other stops towards Fram managed to get on a bus if it was getting full from the bus station.

Been looking through bustimes tracking for various Consett services and virtually every single service had multiple trips cancelled, the Consett/Stanley to Newcastle routes were particularly badly hit, the morning and afternoon peaks being pretty much unusable on some routes - many buses were absent during these hours to perform school contracts.

The suggestion of using the app to check if your bus is running is also not without flaws, had various people report that the V1/V2 haven't been operating with all trips showing as cancelled on the app, but a look on bustimes suggests it started running from 0920 onwards, I imagine it will struggle to keep up with all these changes to boards, breakdowns etc.

It really does feel like they're chucking whatever they've got at everything, a Little Pinks Solo SR on the 50 for the morning & afternoon peaks really isn't ideal (no idea if the morning 50S ran, doesn't appear to track).

Feel for the drivers in all this, they must be getting put through absolute hell by the disgruntled passengers, how long till we see a return of the "be nice to drivers" posts on their socials I wonder?