(Yesterday, 10:22 pm)Ambassador wrote There was a non CAZ Citaro on the 29

Rather than do the right thing and pay the relatively small fee…Go Nowhere ran it short to Gateshead

Absolutely shameless

They’re done that a few times now. Shouldn’t be terminating a bus early just because of a clean air zone fine. I thought stagecoach were bad but go north east seem to be getting worse every day.

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/report-a-bus...turning-up

Please email the DVSA's intelligence unit regarding a deliberate failure to operate a registered service in full, a formal (and still anonymous) paper trail works better than forum posts!

(Yesterday, 11:07 pm)ReDemPTiion wrote They’re done that a few times now. Shouldn’t be terminating a bus early just because of a clean air zone fine. I thought stagecoach were bad but go north east seem to be getting worse every day.

At least Stagecoach were paying the fine and still sending buses through town regardless of the CAZ. I think this is also why some people misunderstand the rules of the CAZ, GNE terminate non compliant buses instead of paying a fine, making it seem to the un-trained eye that the bus is fully restricted from town; which most of us know isn't the case. I've had an argument with someone plenty of times because they can't seem to understand that under Euro 5 buses are allowed in the City Centre as long as they pay a charge.

(Yesterday, 10:22 pm)Ambassador wrote There was a non CAZ Citaro on the 29

Rather than do the right thing and pay the relatively small fee…Go Nowhere ran it short to Gateshead

Absolutely shameless

Bustimes (usual caveats) shows it happening all day yesterday. Vehicle 5368.

That's bang to rights. I'd genuinely inform the traffic commissioner.

The CAZ is not a vehicle ban. There is no good reason why it shouldn't run to Newcastle.

(09 Jan 2025, 8:57 am)ASX_Terranova wrote Is today the worst reliability weve seen out of washy depot?

(Yesterday, 10:22 pm)Ambassador wrote There was a non CAZ Citaro on the 29

Rather than do the right thing and pay the relatively small fee…Go Nowhere ran it short to Gateshead

Absolutely shameless

This is typical of the poor service being provided by Washington. On Wednesday morning all 3 vehicles missing from the 34 resulting in no service on that route. 
While Go North East have awarded Washington as their depot of the year 2024. Sorry but that award is insulting to all of Washington customers.

I blame Sunderland Council for using the wrong type of grit and salt in Washington......

Jim Scott interviewing folk in Stanley now

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1ez3w2959lo

(Yesterday, 8:30 pm)garym67 wrote Enough now, how many times are you going to post this crap, surely you get the message by now no one agrees with you?

Believe me as someone who uses these services you hate so much I can tell you these buses are nowhere near the answer to your prayers.

Just as examples last week I was an an E400 on the X30 that was struggling so much I thought it was't going to get up Dunston bank, could have walked it quicker. The week before everytime the stop/start kicked in the bus gradually got less and less keen on restarting, to the point when it got to Sunniside we were on the verge of having to get off before the driver finally got it restarted. These are not isolated incidents, and the fact that a large number of services this week have be run by coast and county streetlites suggest a number of them have given up.

If they're going to change anything lets go back to X30 twice an hour and X31 twice an hour as before, personally I prefer it going via Whickham/Dunston as it gets into the right side of town, unlike the trip over the Tyne Bridge but if you give me the X30 back twice an hour you can do whatever you like with the X31/32.

I agree im very much sick of it now

(3 hours ago)Unber43 wrote I agree im very much sick of it now

Don't worry. He will move onto the Coast road & how the B9TL Gemini should move or the 22 should go to Hadrian Park

(3 hours ago)Aaron21 wrote Don't worry. He will move onto the Coast road & how the B9TL Gemini should move or the 22 should go to Hadrian Park

Ah yeah 6 weeks of that now.

I was just ignoring him hoping he would shut up, but i guess that wasn't going to be the case, and just to add the Angel 21 StreetDecks should go onto the 10/10A/10B or the 56. 

309/310 are easy work and will probably get electric buses eventually. But also GNE need to buy atleast 130 buses due to the aging fleet.

(3 hours ago)Aaron21 wrote Don't worry. He will move onto the Coast road & how the B9TL Gemini should move or the 22 should go to Hadrian Park

Only reason I'm suggesting the Angel StreetDecks could end up on the Cobalts (and even the 56 to balance it out) is because of previous attempts back in 2014/15 to retrofit GKN flywheels on 6104 & 6085 as a trial in order to save fuel.

The 307 & 309 are not hard routes and the fuel savings over a fuel hungry B9TL would be quite decent, not forgetting commonality at Percy Main also having the NT Rockets & Coaster StreetLites.

The whole argument is that Arriva Northumbria have used the E400 Classic and E400MMC on arguably challenging work and bar 7501-06 which were ruined through poor maintenance (same issue which GNE are having), the rest have been fairly good.

From a maintenance and engineering perspective, surely it would make far more sense to only have 4x boards that need a low height decker as opposed to 12x and leaving engineering under pressure to send vehicles out that might be legal, but not 100% fit state! If 13x boards were able to be worked by a full height decker.....then it's a hell of a lot less stress and pressure on engineering as they can just allocate an ex GAG/London B9TL or E400 Classic instead of racing around trying to allocate whatever E400MMC is sitting around or having to pull one off the X45 or having to scramble for an E200MMC / StreetLite if the above fails!

Likewise, Riverside would have the choice of 15x deckers to use on the X10/X21 and could rotate them accordingly.