(07 Feb 2026, 11:50 pm)PH - BQA wrote Right, and if you went for one bus and the next was coming you'd be annoyed but likely get over it. If, for weeks, you have been going for buses and multiple in a row were cancelled you're absolutely not going to use the bus again.
It's likely that this is an attempt to answer the inevitable questions from the traffic commissioner. If resource has been drafted in it looks like actions have been taken. If you've got a depot 5 miles down the road with spare buses every day (which Blyth generally do...) while your other one is missing a significant percentage of mileage due to no available bus, it wouldn't be a comfortable conversation.
Ashington have a significant amount of rural and contracted work, which cannot be dropped. This leads to an absolute massacre across the 1/2/35/X21/X22. Blyth exclusively operate frequent, urban services - far more choice in services to drop if need be, and also a corridor (Coast Road) which has multiple operators.
No arguments on your view but I'd look at it the opposite way personally and yeah probably right with the commissioner.
If you've been suffering for cancellations for weeks, then one extra day probably isn't going to be the end of the world - those who aren't going to use the bus will be long gone already. Blyth operations might aswell be perfect and only have one section of customers impacted instead.
Btw, wouldn't say Blyth is ideal; the X7/X8/X9/X10/X11 are every 30 minutes for large chunks of their routes, and an hourly gap is an issue which then leads to serious delays, similar with the 43/44/45 really and the Morpeth boards are off the equation anyway as there's funding there. Only really the 306/308 which is fair game.