(Yesterday, 6:22 pm)L469 YVK wrote I don't blame you.
GNE's problem is easily solvable. All of 6308-14 & 6356-63 to Consett + 6x E400MMC with timetable below. More than enough to cover PVR & spares. Then 14x E400MMC + 6377 covering the X10 & X21 with 3x spares.
- X32 omits Lobley Hill Est and 2bph
- X70 serves Lobley Hill Est
- X31 dropped
- X30/X71 half hourly through Whickham & Dunston
Only issue GNE would have is ths X20 but could get some Cobalt B9TL's if 307/309 get the Angel StreetDecks (which is likely).
Problem solved!
Enough now, how many times are you going to post this crap, surely you get the message by now no one agrees with you?
Believe me as someone who uses these services you hate so much I can tell you these buses are nowhere near the answer to your prayers.
Just as examples last week I was an an E400 on the X30 that was struggling so much I thought it was't going to get up Dunston bank, could have walked it quicker. The week before everytime the stop/start kicked in the bus gradually got less and less keen on restarting, to the point when it got to Sunniside we were on the verge of having to get off before the driver finally got it restarted. These are not isolated incidents, and the fact that a large number of services this week have be run by coast and county streetlites suggest a number of them have given up.
If they're going to change anything lets go back to X30 twice an hour and X31 twice an hour as before, personally I prefer it going via Whickham/Dunston as it gets into the right side of town, unlike the trip over the Tyne Bridge but if you give me the X30 back twice an hour you can do whatever you like with the X31/32.