I know we all have our jibes about NSA's and paintwork but it's really is the tip of the iceburg lately. It's almost everyone has just given up and this includes Nexus aswell who are out with the usual throwing Stadler under the train again (not that it would do much as none are running).

Almost everything is just broken:

• Buses being reduced left, right and centre.
  
• Councils celebrating money they already had which will recover above questionably.
  
• 3 private bus operators who are as innovate as a typewriter.
  
• 3 public rail operators (Northern Rail, Metro and TPE) who are cancelling trains left right and centre.
  
• No crisis planning, such as buses running into Newcastle today, to just be delayed and no planning.
  
• Buses being cancelled left, right and centre for the best part of 2 year now.
  
• Buses not fit for purpose, in particular Arriva's Solos and the Stagecoach's MAN 200's with no plan to get shot of them with daily breakdowns.
  
• Depot closures from both Arriva and GNE which have both resulted in serious issues which are still a problem at both (Riverside cancellations, Arriva routes being removed altogether).
  
• The same cronies in charge of high positions who have questionable ability, Gannon and Tobyn Hughes in particular - what exactly have these 2 achieved?
  
• Strikes at Stagecoach, very nearly strikes at Arriva and GNE.
  
• Nexus, as usual, wasting money on things like glass windows at Byker which were removed because of vandalism.
  
• Metro extremely unsafe in the evenings, overran by feral kids.
  

We must have the worst public transport in the country for an urban area, you look at places like Edinburgh and Manchester and the problems are nowhere near the issues up here lately and is it just me who has absolutely no hope that it'll change regardless to whether it's franchised or not as both options are as poor as each other because of who are in charge?

It's sad times but public transport is unusable, unless you have a fetish for delays, cancellations and wasting time.

North Yorkshire Council has announced that their YorBus demand responsive transport scheme will come to an end on Friday 30th June 2023.

https://www.northyorks.gov.uk/roads-park...-yorkshire

YorBus pilot scheme will end on 30 June 2023
YorBus, the pilot scheme to run a flexible, on-demand bus service connecting Ripon, Masham and Bedale is ending on 30 June 2023.
YorBus, the pilot scheme to run a flexible, on-demand bus service connecting Ripon, Masham and Bedale is ending on 30 June 2023.
The pilot was originally intended to run for a 12-month period from July 2021 to help us gather information about the costs and benefits of running a digital demand responsive bus service. Last year the scheme was extended for a further 12 months which allowed time to explore some other ways to deliver the service, such as a pre-booking facility.

Drivers and vehicles are being reallocated to their own in house scheduled bus service operations.

A new Peterlee Purples X6 Promotional picture has been shown for the upcoming changes, however one thing that has been spotted is a new Go North East logo

Both haven’t been used since the start of the month as it seems their allocated service is now allocated Voltras from the 53/54

Is there plans to see these coming back as they haven’t seen use on the X75

https://www.facebook.com/OnlineTransportArchive/ 

There's some cracking stuff on here. Local and otherwise. 

Images are being published later in the year by the looks of things.

With there soon being 14x StreetLites available, could Arriva not move these to Ashington to wipe out the Solos / Pulsars for the 1, 2, 57, 57A?

1 - PVR 4x
2 - PVR 4x
57/57A - PVR 4x
- 2x spare and Euro 6 compliant should they be needed as a last resort on the Morpeth / Ashington 'X' routes.

Demand responsive transport has been working in quite a few areas, tees flex in the north east always seems to be about so with the plans to create a north east combined authority do you think we could ever get a regionwide DRT? Likely it would only work if most companies accept to receive funding to run a combined DRT network for local areas but it could be better than the current funding of under used buses in the area while still giving smaller towns and villages transport options. The problem with a lot of areas here especially the west of county durham and northumberland is that the population density is very low these small communities could easily be connected to bigger towns with DRT allowing them to access the wider bus network.

Can anyone tell me where has the north east bus photos link has gone please, all I can find is when I key it in is a link to Facebook which I am not on

I heard a couple of driver chatting at change over at the weekend and i am sure on driver said the actual " driving" part of their shift was under 50% of the total hours.  Is this correct as it seems a lot of dead, non money making hours to me?

How long does it take to get onto to the top rate of 14.14 and do pcv holders automatically go straight onto it.