'Temporary' Frequency Reduction
'Temporary' Frequency Reduction
(09 Apr 2024, 8:13 am)Unber43 Arriva North East have announced a temporary frequency reduction on the 35|X21|X22 they will be reduced to every 30 minutes Monday-Friday, Saturday and Sunday services will not change.
What are the odds that the temporary frequencies will become permanent?
(09 Apr 2024, 8:13 am)Unber43 Arriva North East have announced a temporary frequency reduction on the 35|X21|X22 they will be reduced to every 30 minutes Monday-Friday, Saturday and Sunday services will not change.
What are the odds that the temporary frequencies will become permanent?
It won't be going back to normal anytime soon. Current new starters are on 2p an hour above minimum wage until the latest pay deal is resolved, and even then I can't see it going up to anymore than £12/hr.
(10 Apr 2024, 3:19 pm)Driver9*** It won't be going back to normal anytime soon. Current new starters are on 2p an hour above minimum wage until the latest pay deal is resolved, and even then I can't see it going up to anymore than £12/hr.
(10 Apr 2024, 3:19 pm)Driver9*** It won't be going back to normal anytime soon. Current new starters are on 2p an hour above minimum wage until the latest pay deal is resolved, and even then I can't see it going up to anymore than £12/hr.
(10 Apr 2024, 3:22 pm)mb134 I mean, the rejected offer was significantly more than £12/hr for new starters.
(10 Apr 2024, 3:22 pm)mb134 I mean, the rejected offer was significantly more than £12/hr for new starters.
(15 Apr 2024, 7:48 am)Aaron21 Blyth seems to have the 1 due to the Ashington shortages. I was told it was the 2
(15 Apr 2024, 7:48 am)Aaron21 Blyth seems to have the 1 due to the Ashington shortages. I was told it was the 2
Reduction has went horrendously. Coupled with shocking allocations (Streetlites on the busiest X21/22s to town, and on the hourly X14), there are multiple X21/22s cancelled each day leaving gaps of 90 mins to 2 hours at times.
The lack of plan to fix things from management, given the length of time they have been short of drivers, shows the sheer scale of the incompetence. If the new owners have any sense, every single person involved in the overall "management" of the company should be at the Job Centre within 5 minutes of them taking over.
(16 Apr 2024, 1:17 pm)mb134 Reduction has went horrendously. Coupled with shocking allocations (Streetlites on the busiest X21/22s to town, and on the hourly X14), there are multiple X21/22s cancelled each day leaving gaps of 90 mins to 2 hours at times.
The lack of plan to fix things from management, given the length of time they have been short of drivers, shows the sheer scale of the incompetence. If the new owners have any sense, every single person involved in the overall "management" of the company should be at the Job Centre within 5 minutes of them taking over.
(16 Apr 2024, 1:17 pm)mb134 Reduction has went horrendously. Coupled with shocking allocations (Streetlites on the busiest X21/22s to town, and on the hourly X14), there are multiple X21/22s cancelled each day leaving gaps of 90 mins to 2 hours at times.
The lack of plan to fix things from management, given the length of time they have been short of drivers, shows the sheer scale of the incompetence. If the new owners have any sense, every single person involved in the overall "management" of the company should be at the Job Centre within 5 minutes of them taking over.
(16 Apr 2024, 1:38 pm)Thomas12 I find it interesting how quickly Northumbria have gone downhill. The 306/308 used to be pretty good until late last year, and now they are completely unusable.
GNE must be happy with the extra passengers at least!
(16 Apr 2024, 1:38 pm)Thomas12 I find it interesting how quickly Northumbria have gone downhill. The 306/308 used to be pretty good until late last year, and now they are completely unusable.
GNE must be happy with the extra passengers at least!
(16 Apr 2024, 1:17 pm)mb134 Reduction has went horrendously. Coupled with shocking allocations (Streetlites on the busiest X21/22s to town, and on the hourly X14), there are multiple X21/22s cancelled each day leaving gaps of 90 mins to 2 hours at times.
The lack of plan to fix things from management, given the length of time they have been short of drivers, shows the sheer scale of the incompetence. If the new owners have any sense, every single person involved in the overall "management" of the company should be at the Job Centre within 5 minutes of them taking over.
(16 Apr 2024, 1:17 pm)mb134 Reduction has went horrendously. Coupled with shocking allocations (Streetlites on the busiest X21/22s to town, and on the hourly X14), there are multiple X21/22s cancelled each day leaving gaps of 90 mins to 2 hours at times.
The lack of plan to fix things from management, given the length of time they have been short of drivers, shows the sheer scale of the incompetence. If the new owners have any sense, every single person involved in the overall "management" of the company should be at the Job Centre within 5 minutes of them taking over.
(16 Apr 2024, 5:59 pm)Storx You should come live down from a route from the Blyth depot, it's been going on for the best part of 2 year now, ever since the Jesmond ballsup and them gaining work, they never had the drivers to actually do the work.
There's a reason why I'm so pro train and it's not just that it's a train, it's also the incompetence of Arriva.
The allocations are shocking here aswell, there appears to be two boards missing on the X7/X8/X9 today. How should we do it? I have a good idea, let's do two boards straight after each other
(16 Apr 2024, 5:59 pm)Storx You should come live down from a route from the Blyth depot, it's been going on for the best part of 2 year now, ever since the Jesmond ballsup and them gaining work, they never had the drivers to actually do the work.
There's a reason why I'm so pro train and it's not just that it's a train, it's also the incompetence of Arriva.
The allocations are shocking here aswell, there appears to be two boards missing on the X7/X8/X9 today. How should we do it? I have a good idea, let's do two boards straight after each other
(16 Apr 2024, 6:37 pm)Ex-conductor I had a problem with the 306 today; the bus I went for didn't turn up and the next one, due 20 minutes later, was 12 minutes late. I got off the bus at St. Mary's Place, and there was another 306 immediately behind. On my return journey at the Haymarket the departure board was showing a 306 due in 3 minutes. It didn't show, so I used the 308 instead. Then on the Coast Road I noticed a 306 ahead of the 308. Departed too early from the Haymarket?? It's ironic that Arriva have recently increased the frequency on a number of their services, and they have introduced new services, yet they don't have the capacity to run them efficiently. I wish they would just pack in altogether and allow a more competent company to take over.
(16 Apr 2024, 6:37 pm)Ex-conductor I had a problem with the 306 today; the bus I went for didn't turn up and the next one, due 20 minutes later, was 12 minutes late. I got off the bus at St. Mary's Place, and there was another 306 immediately behind. On my return journey at the Haymarket the departure board was showing a 306 due in 3 minutes. It didn't show, so I used the 308 instead. Then on the Coast Road I noticed a 306 ahead of the 308. Departed too early from the Haymarket?? It's ironic that Arriva have recently increased the frequency on a number of their services, and they have introduced new services, yet they don't have the capacity to run them efficiently. I wish they would just pack in altogether and allow a more competent company to take over.
(16 Apr 2024, 5:59 pm)Storx You should come live down from a route from the Blyth depot, it's been going on for the best part of 2 year now, ever since the Jesmond ballsup and them gaining work, they never had the drivers to actually do the work.
There's a reason why I'm so pro train and it's not just that it's a train, it's also the incompetence of Arriva.
The allocations are shocking here aswell, there appears to be two boards missing on the X7/X8/X9 today. How should we do it? I have a good idea, let's do two boards straight after each other
(16 Apr 2024, 5:59 pm)Storx You should come live down from a route from the Blyth depot, it's been going on for the best part of 2 year now, ever since the Jesmond ballsup and them gaining work, they never had the drivers to actually do the work.
There's a reason why I'm so pro train and it's not just that it's a train, it's also the incompetence of Arriva.
The allocations are shocking here aswell, there appears to be two boards missing on the X7/X8/X9 today. How should we do it? I have a good idea, let's do two boards straight after each other
(16 Apr 2024, 1:17 pm)mb134 Reduction has went horrendously. Coupled with shocking allocations (Streetlites on the busiest X21/22s to town, and on the hourly X14), there are multiple X21/22s cancelled each day leaving gaps of 90 mins to 2 hours at times.
The lack of plan to fix things from management, given the length of time they have been short of drivers, shows the sheer scale of the incompetence. If the new owners have any sense, every single person involved in the overall "management" of the company should be at the Job Centre within 5 minutes of them taking over.
(16 Apr 2024, 1:17 pm)mb134 Reduction has went horrendously. Coupled with shocking allocations (Streetlites on the busiest X21/22s to town, and on the hourly X14), there are multiple X21/22s cancelled each day leaving gaps of 90 mins to 2 hours at times.
The lack of plan to fix things from management, given the length of time they have been short of drivers, shows the sheer scale of the incompetence. If the new owners have any sense, every single person involved in the overall "management" of the company should be at the Job Centre within 5 minutes of them taking over.
(16 Apr 2024, 7:53 pm)Driver9*** All three of the Jesmond/Ashington/Blyth depot managers retired at the end of last year. If the man who was the assitant DM at Ashington got the DM job I'm not surprised it's running like a bag of s***e, he wasn't fit to run a bath.
Personally I think the owners are hoping demand drops when the new train line is opened later this year so they're just sucking up the criticism for now.
(16 Apr 2024, 7:53 pm)Driver9*** All three of the Jesmond/Ashington/Blyth depot managers retired at the end of last year. If the man who was the assitant DM at Ashington got the DM job I'm not surprised it's running like a bag of s***e, he wasn't fit to run a bath.
Personally I think the owners are hoping demand drops when the new train line is opened later this year so they're just sucking up the criticism for now.
(16 Apr 2024, 7:53 pm)Driver9*** All three of the Jesmond/Ashington/Blyth depot managers retired at the end of last year. If the man who was the assitant DM at Ashington got the DM job I'm not surprised it's running like a bag of s***e, he wasn't fit to run a bath.
Personally I think the owners are hoping demand drops when the new train line is opened later this year so they're just sucking up the criticism for now.
(16 Apr 2024, 7:53 pm)Driver9*** All three of the Jesmond/Ashington/Blyth depot managers retired at the end of last year. If the man who was the assitant DM at Ashington got the DM job I'm not surprised it's running like a bag of s***e, he wasn't fit to run a bath.
Personally I think the owners are hoping demand drops when the new train line is opened later this year so they're just sucking up the criticism for now.
(16 Apr 2024, 7:31 pm)L469 YVK And ever since the original 44 was withdrawn (Hazlerigg - Whitley Bay).....both Arriva & GNE have been guilty of a 'pack em in and make them late' mentality! The East of North Tyneside & Seaton Sluice has badly been screaming out of an express. Considering the 308 was at one point (excl any Stagecoach routes) the most profitable behind GNE's 21 which has a parallel express (X21).
My biggest gripe is lets say a 308 or 309 are running in pairs Blyth to New York or Billy Mill. They either keep chasing each other....or in GNE's case, SDC kicks passengers onto the one behind making them even more later. Don't know what the insurance implications are for carrying NIS (maybe Dan would be able to answer that) but surely the driver should say "if you want Newcastle stay on, or if wanting anywhere en-route, jump on the one behind".
(16 Apr 2024, 7:31 pm)L469 YVK And ever since the original 44 was withdrawn (Hazlerigg - Whitley Bay).....both Arriva & GNE have been guilty of a 'pack em in and make them late' mentality! The East of North Tyneside & Seaton Sluice has badly been screaming out of an express. Considering the 308 was at one point (excl any Stagecoach routes) the most profitable behind GNE's 21 which has a parallel express (X21).
My biggest gripe is lets say a 308 or 309 are running in pairs Blyth to New York or Billy Mill. They either keep chasing each other....or in GNE's case, SDC kicks passengers onto the one behind making them even more later. Don't know what the insurance implications are for carrying NIS (maybe Dan would be able to answer that) but surely the driver should say "if you want Newcastle stay on, or if wanting anywhere en-route, jump on the one behind".
(16 Apr 2024, 7:31 pm)L469 YVK And ever since the original 44 was withdrawn (Hazlerigg - Whitley Bay).....both Arriva & GNE have been guilty of a 'pack em in and make them late' mentality! The East of North Tyneside & Seaton Sluice has badly been screaming out of an express. Considering the 308 was at one point (excl any Stagecoach routes) the most profitable behind GNE's 21 which has a parallel express (X21).
My biggest gripe is lets say a 308 or 309 are running in pairs Blyth to New York or Billy Mill. They either keep chasing each other....or in GNE's case, SDC kicks passengers onto the one behind making them even more later. Don't know what the insurance implications are for carrying NIS (maybe Dan would be able to answer that) but surely the driver should say "if you want Newcastle stay on, or if wanting anywhere en-route, jump on the one behind".
(16 Apr 2024, 7:31 pm)L469 YVK And ever since the original 44 was withdrawn (Hazlerigg - Whitley Bay).....both Arriva & GNE have been guilty of a 'pack em in and make them late' mentality! The East of North Tyneside & Seaton Sluice has badly been screaming out of an express. Considering the 308 was at one point (excl any Stagecoach routes) the most profitable behind GNE's 21 which has a parallel express (X21).
My biggest gripe is lets say a 308 or 309 are running in pairs Blyth to New York or Billy Mill. They either keep chasing each other....or in GNE's case, SDC kicks passengers onto the one behind making them even more later. Don't know what the insurance implications are for carrying NIS (maybe Dan would be able to answer that) but surely the driver should say "if you want Newcastle stay on, or if wanting anywhere en-route, jump on the one behind".
