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RE: Go North East Santa Bus - Unber43 - 06 Dec 2022
The routes for Santa Bus are missing out quite a few areas
RE: Go North East Santa Bus - streetdeckfan - 06 Dec 2022
(06 Dec 2022, 6:59 pm)Unber43 The routes for Santa Bus are missing out quite a few areasMaybe they've been naughty
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RE: Go North East Santa Bus - Drifter60 - 07 Dec 2022
(06 Dec 2022, 6:59 pm)Unber43 The routes for Santa Bus are missing out quite a few areas
It’s a bit of shame Seaham misses out, when the Santa bus idea initially came from Parkside Community Centre iirc, they donated decorations or something?
Having said that they can’t serve everywhere, so someone somewhere always loose out, but it’s in various bits of Sunderland on three days perhaps could have been planned better?
RE: Go North East Santa Bus - Rob44 - 07 Dec 2022
tHERE IS HELL ON IN LOW FELL AND KIBBLESWORTH!
RE: Go North East Santa Bus - Storx - 07 Dec 2022
(07 Dec 2022, 12:54 am)Drifter60 It’s a bit of shame Seaham misses out, when the Santa bus idea initially came from Parkside Community Centre iirc, they donated decorations or something?
Having said that they can’t serve everywhere, so someone somewhere always loose out, but it’s in various bits of Sunderland on three days perhaps could have been planned better?
Seaham in general is coming across as a place GNE don't care about lately imo.
60, reduced timetable
61, frequency reduced and cross Sunderland links lost including the SOL.
62, scrapped
65, reduced timetable and hourly which is useless
X7, scrapped
71, scrapped (subsidised)
No Santa Bus
No Boxing Day services
Not exactly positive.
RE: Go North East Santa Bus - F114TML - 07 Dec 2022
In fairness, the cross-city links on the 61 aren't really missed - reliability went down the toilet in my experience, but everyone in Murton being confused as to where Lukes Lane is was a bit amusing, and scrapping the X7 was just an inevitability really.
RE: Go North East Santa Bus - Andreos1 - 07 Dec 2022
(07 Dec 2022, 9:26 am)Rob44 tHERE IS HELL ON IN LOW FELL AND KIBBLESWORTH!
https://twitter.com/gonortheast/status/1600138814181154817?t=9jGzJxlS8n1cWhr26S1RDw&s=19
Looks like the customer engagement went out the window... Hope it hasn't affected the perception that GNE are a good company to work for
RE: Go North East Santa Bus - nova347 - 07 Dec 2022
(07 Dec 2022, 11:58 am)Storx Seaham in general is coming across as a place GNE don't care about lately imo.They got rid of the 238 as well. The 62 had good loadings as well, and the 71s are quite busy all the time as well.
60, reduced timetable
61, frequency reduced and cross Sunderland links lost including the SOL.
62, scrapped
65, reduced timetable and hourly which is useless
X7, scrapped
71, scrapped (subsidised)
No Santa Bus
No Boxing Day services
Not exactly positive.
RE: Go North East Santa Bus - Unber43 - 07 Dec 2022
(07 Dec 2022, 11:58 am)Storx Seaham in general is coming across as a place GNE don't care about lately imo.Really they should have kept either 61 at every 20 mins, hourly to Peterlee or 62 hourly and re-route it via Ryhope/New Seaham then along Station Road as then they've got a link to Sunderland.
60, reduced timetable
61, frequency reduced and cross Sunderland links lost including the SOL.
62, scrapped
65, reduced timetable and hourly which is useless
X7, scrapped
71, scrapped (subsidised)
No Santa Bus
No Boxing Day services
Not exactly positive.
If GNE can ever return to their past frequencys it will be interesting to see whether the 60/65 will go back upto every 12 mins and every 30 mins. Personally I would rather say 10.8m buses at every 10 mins, than 11.5m buses at every 12 mins honestly.
RE: Go North East Santa Bus - BusLoverMum - 08 Dec 2022
(07 Dec 2022, 1:22 pm)Andreos1 https://twitter.com/gonortheast/status/1600138814181154817?t=9jGzJxlS8n1cWhr26S1RDw&s=19Woohoo, it missed us out, last year!
Looks like the customer engagement went out the window... Hope it hasn't affected the perception that GNE are a good company to work for
RE: Go North East Santa Bus - Jonathan93102 - 09 Dec 2022
Hello,
I was a bit surprised to see areas with GNE services missed out on the Santa Bus Route this year, yet it seems to be going to places where GNE buses don’t run.
It’s bugged me for a few days so I thought I’d share my opinion. I just thought it would have made more sense to run it through areas where they operate as opposed to areas where they don’t have any services.
Thanks.
RE: Go North East Santa Bus - Rob44 - 14 Dec 2022
Santa is now visiting kibblesworth....
RE: Go North East Santa Bus - Ambassador - 14 Dec 2022
(14 Dec 2022, 10:51 am)Rob44 Santa is now visiting kibblesworth....
I hope he's not relying on the 29....
RE: Go North East Santa Bus - LVK 404L - 17 Dec 2022
(14 Dec 2022, 10:51 am)Rob44 Santa is now visiting KibblesworthMy 8 year old nephew will be ecstatic.
He was devastated it wasn't coming to Kibby this year so that's a bonus.