(19 Apr 2025, 6:33 pm)Storx wrote Must say, have to give massive respect to Arriva today for using the opportunity to try and win customers back from the train, since it's not running this weekend, by being riddled with cancellations.
It's almost like they want people using the train and it's at both depots aswell but Ashington and the X22, in particular, has been really bad today.
Looks to me that 1 shift was missing on the X22 given the timings, with 4 buses out for most of the day (out of 5).
Only 1 single trip on the X21 looked to be dropped too.
All that said, I’m not sure why they’d be winning people back from the train? The train has been going 4 months now, anyone who was going to switch will have done so, and anyone who has switched isn’t going to go back to the bus because of engineering works on a BH weekend?