Blyth Regulation
Blyth Regulation
(17 Sep 2023, 5:17 pm)mb134 Are you just purposely ignoring the fact they're all wildly different routes serving different towns and villages?I know they serve loads of different places but would there not be maybe be a away to cut atleast one of them and adjust another or a few to cover the same area, especially with the driver shortage
(17 Sep 2023, 5:17 pm)mb134 Are you just purposely ignoring the fact they're all wildly different routes serving different towns and villages?I know they serve loads of different places but would there not be maybe be a away to cut atleast one of them and adjust another or a few to cover the same area, especially with the driver shortage
(17 Sep 2023, 5:18 pm)Unber43 I know they serve loads of different places but would there not be maybe be a away to cut atleast one of them and adjust another or a few to cover the same area, especially with the driver shortage
(17 Sep 2023, 5:18 pm)Unber43 I know they serve loads of different places but would there not be maybe be a away to cut atleast one of them and adjust another or a few to cover the same area, especially with the driver shortage
(17 Sep 2023, 5:27 pm)Storx The only services you could realistically cut like that is one of the expresses and extend it onto the end of the 43 but it wouldn't be popular.
ie. 43 split every 30 minutes via the X9/X10/X11 route from Cramlington or Seaton Burn to Blyth.
(17 Sep 2023, 5:27 pm)Storx The only services you could realistically cut like that is one of the expresses and extend it onto the end of the 43 but it wouldn't be popular.
ie. 43 split every 30 minutes via the X9/X10/X11 route from Cramlington or Seaton Burn to Blyth.
(17 Sep 2023, 5:58 pm)mb134 The X9 would be horrendous if you were to do that to it, it's already the longest route from Blyth to Cramlington out of the current express routes.
Similarly with the X10/11, you then unbalance the interworking pattern on those and you probably push the demand to the one which remains an express. It would also reduce capacity on the 43/X10/11 to Newcastle during the peaks, which I don't think they could cope with at present.
Fiddling with the X7 is off the table, nothing else can serve Seghill, Seaton Delaval, Seaton Sluice, New Hartley easily. Similarly with the X8, nothing can easily be diverted to serve South Beach (you can't send an X10/11 without killing the service through Newsham), or High Pit. With both routes, no other route can be easily diverted to serve Burradon or Quorum.
(17 Sep 2023, 5:58 pm)mb134 The X9 would be horrendous if you were to do that to it, it's already the longest route from Blyth to Cramlington out of the current express routes.
Similarly with the X10/11, you then unbalance the interworking pattern on those and you probably push the demand to the one which remains an express. It would also reduce capacity on the 43/X10/11 to Newcastle during the peaks, which I don't think they could cope with at present.
Fiddling with the X7 is off the table, nothing else can serve Seghill, Seaton Delaval, Seaton Sluice, New Hartley easily. Similarly with the X8, nothing can easily be diverted to serve South Beach (you can't send an X10/11 without killing the service through Newsham), or High Pit. With both routes, no other route can be easily diverted to serve Burradon or Quorum.
I find it funny when bus enthusiasts think they run the company on here, and other pages
Quite a few Blyth buses appear to be tracking incorrectly again. 7501, 7556, 7605, and 7612 are all tracking on 2 boards each as far as I can tell.
The second 7501 looks to have stopped tracking earlier at Haymarket, so I assume the bus has either broken there or it's given up trying to track.
(02 Oct 2023, 12:19 pm)mb134 Quite a few Blyth buses appear to be tracking incorrectly again. 7501, 7556, 7605, and 7612 are all tracking on 2 boards each as far as I can tell.
The second 7501 looks to have stopped tracking earlier at Haymarket, so I assume the bus has either broken there or it's given up trying to track.
(02 Oct 2023, 12:19 pm)mb134 Quite a few Blyth buses appear to be tracking incorrectly again. 7501, 7556, 7605, and 7612 are all tracking on 2 boards each as far as I can tell.
The second 7501 looks to have stopped tracking earlier at Haymarket, so I assume the bus has either broken there or it's given up trying to track.
