(27 Apr 2014, 10:54 am)robisdave15 wrote That's an issue that is hard to address, sadly the public don't see it that way as I'm sure Tyresmoke will agree? We suffer at times on our 5/5a services which happens, in part, because of the different diagrame that these services operate. A 5, for example operating out of town on a morning when the schools can fall behind and despite the extra running time, find it difficult to catch up. You then get a 5a service operating a different diagram running to time but right behind the late 5 and so it goes on. I understand how it works but as I say, the public (most of them) don't!
The only real problem on the 5s is Cargo Fleet Lane. The lights at the trunk road coming into Middlesbrough cause the traffic to back up to College Road during the day (pretty much all day now!) and at peak times it's often back to the Greenway! We get given 9 mins from Ormesby roundabout to North Ormesby market place, it can sometimes take double that... Having said that, North Ormesby is getting just as bad, this afternoon it took me 14 mins to get from the market place to Morrisons!
The school loadings to/from Nunthorpe are an issue too, but it only really affects the afternoon when they're all coming out at once, whereas the morning ones are more spread out over two journeys (0745 and 0800 out of Middlesbrough, both take a standing load to Swans Corner)