For months they have been struggling for enough bus drivers to run buses to schedule, with many of our local runs simply having to be cancelled at no notice. For me, with a 15 minute alternating service, it is no biggie, unless they cancel two buses in succession. My most used buses were two routes, A and B, each on a 30 minute service, both running from a local city, through my village, and onto a town. Both followed almost the same route, with slight deviation, same start and end points, passing the end of my street every 15 minutes. The two buses and routes were so similar, that drivers would often forget which bus route they were running and go the wrong way.
To cope with driver shortages, they have cancelled one of the two bus routes completely B, and instead doubled the frequency of the other A. What was a 30 minute service of the latter, has now changed to a 15 minute service. So instead of an alternating 15 minute service, we get the same bus number every 15 minutes. It makes absolutely no difference at all to me, but many have no completely lost their what was, a 30 minute bus service. Lots of passengers complaining about having to walk up to two miles to now catch bus A.
What I fail to understand, is how the change helps them resolve the shortage of drivers?
To cope with driver shortages, they have cancelled one of the two bus routes completely B, and instead doubled the frequency of the other A. What was a 30 minute service of the latter, has now changed to a 15 minute service. So instead of an alternating 15 minute service, we get the same bus number every 15 minutes. It makes absolutely no difference at all to me, but many have no completely lost their what was, a 30 minute bus service. Lots of passengers complaining about having to walk up to two miles to now catch bus A.
What I fail to understand, is how the change helps them resolve the shortage of drivers?