This is living proof of what will happen if more nationalisation comes in. Incompetent prats running things with no clue what they are doing. A flaming monkey could do a better job than these twits at TrawsCymru. Just a shed load of greed's sods leaching off taxpayers while providing nothing in return.
Same for incompetent prats at Traveling Cymru who can't update timetables on the national journey planner despite someone literally pointing out the errors to them and consistently pointing out the faults.
There's no accountability and no care for passengers.
Every time I have brought it up with Welsh ministers, they say they have no plans to sort it as they believe everything is working. Incompetent Labour ministers propping up failing arms lengths companies because they don't want to admit that they are too incompetent to run things.
It's a shame about the T19, but not surprising.
I've used it a fair few times, this is only my personal experience but the loadings have always been light and the time keeping sloppy.
That said, I don't think sloppy time keeping is unique to the T19, from experience, it seems to be a general theme when it comes to public transport in North Wales.
That's just Llew Jones really. It's not widespread from my experience in North Wales.
You must be right it is North Wales.
Take the T3 . It was impossible in 2016 for it to meet the Traffic Commissioners Guidelines that 95% of services reached timing points no more than 5 minutes late and the T3 still does not meet the guidelines.now. The non compliance is at such a level that the Traffic Commissioner should be imposing fines but hey ho the Welsh Government have removed the UK Traffic Commissioner from Birmingham and he is now devolved to the Welsh Government(WG)
The problem was tackled in 2016 by employing an illegal delayed departure of 10 minutes on top of the 5 minute connection time.to give a total wait time in Dolgellau of 15 minutes, which failed to work. T2 services stood for 15 minutes waiting for a T3 non arrival
On 03/05/2016 the Traffic Commissioner, (then the UK Traffic Commissioner responsible for Wales), instructed the Trawscymru Network Manager to reduce the 10 minute delayed departure to 5 minutes.
I am aware of the contents of paragraph 13 of the Statutory Quality Partnership Scheme for the T2 and T3 services. This paragraph is entitled 'Interchanges' and states the following;
The Scheme specifies that recognised connecting services shall arrive at the Primary Interchange Points a minimum of 5 minutes before the scheduled departure time
I do not consider that the wording of this paragraph permits the late running of services as the requirements of the Public Service Vehicles (Registration of Local Services) Regulations 1986 and the Transport Act 1985 must still be met.
In 2016 only 66.67% of T3 services met the requirement to reach a timing point within 5 minutes of their advertised arrival time set against a standard of 95%. This was not changed by the Traffic Commissioners ruling but what did change was the T2 could leave Dolgellau after 10 minutes and this made an amazing difference to the ability of the T2 to connect with the T1 to Carmarthen in Aberystwyth.
Notes of the Meeting of the TrawsCymru T2 and T3 Delivery Group – Wednesday 12 October 2016
Bus Users Cymru Update the T3 service is still struggling at 66.67% of journeys being punctual at key timing points.
On 01/01/2018 the change of 03/05/2016 requested by the Traffic Commissioner was cleverly reversed by employing a timed wait of 10 minutes, (instead of 5 minutes), and the legal delayed departure of 5 minutes . The T3 is therefore still non compliant with the Traffic Commissioner's guidelines on 2 counts.
(1) The Traffic Commissioners guidelines record
the traffic commissioners do not expect to find undue recovery time inserted in the timetable towards the end of a journey.
https://assets.publishing.service.g...ads/attachment_data/file/1025909/STATDO_1.PDF
The T3 from Wrexham to Barmouth is non compliant in that it is employing an undue recovery time in Dolgellau 10 miles from its final destination. Adding 5 minutes to the timetabled wait is adding undue recovery time.
(2) 95 % of T3 services from Wrexham to Barmouth do not reach Dolgellau within 5 minutes of their advertised arrival time, That is patently obvious when it needs the T2 service to wait for 15 minutes and even after 15 minutes the T3 from Wrexham frequently does not arrive.
The net result is that the strategic T2/T1 North/South route which has no other alternative public transport option is dysfunctional. All because the T3 has not been designed as a Trawscymru long distance service.
Before someone reminds me I have mentioned this in the past. Apologies for that