(17 Jan 2025, 7:08 pm)busmanT wrote Plenty of timetables available in South Shields at 1400!

Not much use to the folk who attended Sunderland at 10.00 though, is it? 

Hopefully that won't be the case again this Fri/Sat.

(17 Jan 2025, 8:48 pm)N1cholas wrote What did you expect of the roadshow? live music, competitions, glitz, glamour and flashy lights? they had plenty of route change guides for both sunderland and south shields this afternoon at south shields, maybe they did get them delivered, what would have been the point in printing out the plain PDF's when the information is available online.
Thought the point of these was to answer questions about how the route changes effect how people from A to B now via C and how the changes will effect people, the decision to reduce the frequency to hourly on the 26 obviously reflects passenger numbers and for the majority of the route it is not the only service.
Guess it would have been better to not bother this morning without them then you would have complained it wasn't on.
Maybe pop to sunderland tomorrow afternoon if you really want the guides

Putting the flippancy to one side, I think it would be a reasonable expectation to be able to take away some literature for the changes they're promoting. People are of course going to ask questions, but I suspect most of the answers are what could be referred to in a paper timetable or route map. What do you say to the first person that tells you they don't have a device to access the Internet on? 

It'd have also been a useful aid in promoting those services to people who don't presently use them. 

In reality though, I suspect these 'roadshows' are only taking place because it's been pointed out that they haven't followed the consultation protocol that they've committed to in the Enhanced Partnership.