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Post by teapot42 on Nov 19, 2023 18:00:50 GMT
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Post by rothlad on Nov 20, 2023 11:37:21 GMT
Driver shortages. Derbyshire CC agreed the changes with Hulley's as a temporary measure. 257 evening trips are part of Derbyshire BSIP scheme. |
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Post by alemaster on Nov 24, 2023 17:51:40 GMT
Ah good that it should be making a comeback at some point, I assumed it was due to poor loadings - awareness in Sheffield of the new improved evening services on the 44, 218, 257, 272 and X17 is almost zero, SYMCA really ought to be more supportive with publicity this side of the county boundary, but they are too busy cutting their own tendered services and using tax payers money to fund publicity campaigns that tell everyone buses are rubbish and they want more government money! The withdrawal of the evening service is only just over a week away and still nothing on the Travel South Yorkshire service change page. It is on the Derbyshire County Council website with new timetable. www.travelsouthyorkshire.com/en-gb/newsupdates/service-changes#Sheffieldwww.derbysbus.info/times/tt_201_999.htmDriver shortages continues to be an industry wide problem it seems... |
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Post by teapot42 on Nov 24, 2023 20:53:08 GMT
Ah good that it should be making a comeback at some point, I assumed it was due to poor loadings - awareness in Sheffield of the new improved evening services on the 44, 218, 257, 272 and X17 is almost zero, SYMCA really ought to be more supportive with publicity this side of the county boundary, but they are too busy cutting their own tendered services and using tax payers money to fund publicity campaigns that tell everyone buses are rubbish and they want more government money! The withdrawal of the evening service is only just over a week away and still nothing on the Travel South Yorkshire service change page. It is on the Derbyshire County Council website with new timetable. www.travelsouthyorkshire.com/en-gb/newsupdates/service-changes#Sheffieldwww.derbysbus.info/times/tt_201_999.htmDriver shortages continues to be an industry wide problem it seems... Quite good that Derbyshire CC recognise that Sheffield is a major destination for residents of the nearby parts of Derbyshire and are prepared to fund the services. That's my big fear if franchising spreads, that services across borders tend to get forgotten.
As well as the evening services, the daytime 257s are no longer hourly. I suspect they've cut a diagram so need fewer drivers. Also seem to have a few buses off the road at the moment which can't help.
On the Stagecoach side, I have come to the realisation they have rationalised things just too far. The X17 has become very poor at keeping time since it was extended to Wirksworth and many other services operated from Chesterfield depot (I've not got experience of other depots to compare) are regularly late or dropping journeys. They seem to have cut recovery times too far and merged routes so much that there is bound to be a delay at some point which knocks on. For the X17 especially now every other one runs Barnsley to Matlock seems to have killed reliability. Saturdays are especially bad, and I can't imagine the M1 roadworks are helping at peak times. I'd say there is probably a case to split the service in to smaller sections so at least only part of the route is affect by problems at any one time. Not great for through passengers of course.
From their Facebook adverts, it looks like Hulleys only pay £12/hr and with minimum wage just going up to £11.44 in April I can't see it being all that attractive for drivers to be honest.
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