(17 May 2014, 10:10 am)DaveyBowyer wrote I was heading into Newcastle yesterday and I seen the 1608 service getting to St Mary's at 1623. Now don't get me wrong, it gets held up by the schools but even GNE run an additional service terminating in Battle Hill to cope with the school loadings at peak times. And when things do go wrong on the 309 and 310, you can contact local people who know about the service and the driver has their trusty Tait handset positioned next to the CCTV screen in the cab. Here's a slogan GNE could use:
"In your opinion, Arriva may go 50mph and go faster down the 'Motorway' and we may take a slightly longer detour around Battle Hill and Cobalt Park. But we aren't that much slower and we always aim to run on time. And when things go wrong, we have local friendly people with local knowledge at hand to take your call and our drivers have direct contact with our live local control room."
Anything snappier?
