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Haven’t both Stagecoach and GNE used non complaint vehicles plenty of times? Stagecoach even using them on the Late Shows which is council supported If it goes to an indefinite strike, you’d hope Arriva show some operational and commercial noise and step up. It’s well known the Durham Road...

These things playing out in public never helps the cause but GNE have looked somewhat bumbling throughout. In terms of the disruption. Uber have been surcharging as they do with their demand pricing throughout the peaks and I know my local taxi firm is only taking pre-bookings due to the level...

The second week of strike action begins tomorrow. Unite have also announced a continuous all out strike from October 28th if GNE fail to engage https://www.unitetheunion.org/news-events/news/2023/october/go-north-east-bus-workers-step-up-strike-action-with-all-out-strike

If the police confirm an incident did occur yet Go North East deny it. Who's lying? That internal memo seems unecessarily inflammatory and yet more incredibly poor people management from the team at Bensham

Do you suffer their incompetence every day? GNE took on loss making routes in north Tyneside. Tweaked them with debatable route changes. They didn’t have enough drivers so now have agency drivers covering those routes. Their most reliable depot, which was Percy Main, is now posting dozens of...

As awful as Arriva are, they’re still better than GNE up here which is some going. Taking on the unprofitable routes arriva ditched when they closed their Newcastle depot is part of GNEs issues.

A loss making company…Where does one start with GNE. It’s a basket case and it has been even since Gilbert was in charge. Constant rebranding - one dreads to think how much they wasted on Best Impressions identikit paint jobs, an entirely unstable route network that is rejigged every few...

Well we’re hours away from the strike and with the added bonus of the rail strike, huge swathes of Tyneside, Northumberland and County Durham are left with no public transport at all. GNE have confirmed only school buses will operate next week (where possible) but a lot of the most vulnerable...

Unite confirm two full weeks of strikes in September and October https://www.unitetheunion.org/news-events/news/2023/september/go-north-east-drivers-announce-dates-for-strike-action/

The WFH views on this forum make me laugh, it’s always like a Daily Mail comment section and so out of touch. WFH is here to stay in its new guise as flexible or hybrid working as many now call it. Most are doing 1-2 days in the office, if you want to be in full time, then you can, the...

A newly appointed business director, in post just under a year, he seems to front up most of their PR disasters from the bus tipping over in County Durham to the press release on drivers pay. The new north Tyneside routes were a huge commercial risk but all it appears to have done is destroy...

It seems to the the terms and conditions that are the stickler. But yes, gne are a loss maker. Giljbert wasted a stack of cash and featham is running it at a distance and cutting to the bone. Perhaps for a sale? That Ben Maxfield is a walking PR disaster mind, stinks of over promotion

Drivers overwhelmingly vote for industrial action at Go North East 98% in favour with an 85% turnout https://www.unitetheunion.org/news-events/news/2023/september/go-north-east-drivers-vote-for-strike-action-over-poor-pay/

I’m confused by this. You either face someone now in side facing seats or pretty much sit on someone in the bays. The new trains will make this better for you

Are you living in some utopia? Retail, Contact Centres etc…vast majority no longer offer a rate or even a lieu day for bank holiday

Stadler have released a statement through Nexus apologising for the absolutely woeful service of the last few days. https://www.nexus.org.uk/news/item/stadler-statement-metro-fleet-availability Lovely to see Nexus have found a new scapegoat, it’s the one thing they’re good at

As expected with the rest of the group confirming, Go North East also extending the cap to October https://www.gonortheast.co.uk/two-pounds

At what point do these strikes just become wallpaper to at least the leisure travelling public? They'll tut, shake their head, take their refund and book a plane, coach or drive. They'll try the train next time and if its not on strike, great, if it is...rinse and repeat

Sorry but the idea of 2 entirely separate cities not being able to hold concerts that are FOURTEEN miles apart is obscene. The comment around Fender and NUFC is entirely irrelevant. Manchester coped with Elton John, Arctic Monkeys and Coldplay in one night. If anything Sunderland's travel plan...

Whitley Bay to Newcastle (306/308/9), Newcastle to Middlesbrough (X10), Middlesbrough to Whitby (X93) then back is about 4h 30 each way