(23 Feb 2014, 12:19 pm)Davey Bowyer wrote Why don't Arriva install radios on their buses for? It would massively help the reliability of some services and would stop bunching. I was going down the Coast Road yesterday and two 308's were bunching past Holy Cross towards Newcastle. If they had radios installed, the driver infront could've simply put an RTS through for the one behind to take all his passengers and he would've been able to run dry to Newcastle and leave almost on time.

You seem to have an odd idea how radios work on buses - drivers can't contact other vehicles only a central control (Stagecoach's control is based at each depot) then any major information (road closure, accident etc) is passed by the control to the other vehicles (only messages from control can be heard on the other vehicles on the road). Arriva did have radios until last year when their central control at Jesmond was closed. Instead, drivers now simply contact their depot on the phone (obviously when safe to use the phone) to report late running or to report a breakdown.