Arriva North West - Bootle Depot

[Valandil]

RE: Arriva North West - Bootle Depot

(25/11/2016 15:01)mr t Wrote:  There have been a lot of complaints about the 89s being full at school times so deckers probably better off on it, same with the 60/61/62/63s.

60/61 at least generally are DD from my experience (unless the Halton Transport 61 is meant, but I doubt that).
There have been some times when yes say the 61 has had a single decker on an unfortunate working which passed a school/university at kicking out time, but I'd say the far greater problem with that route is the timekeeping as the reality often bears very little relation to the timetable, especially at peak times.

On a separate point, I noticed the schedule of a driver on the 61 and it showed working non-stop from about half past 1 till something like half past 7, with the largest gap between going in and coming back out being 9 minutes.
This was just the right-hand side of the card (I couldn't see the left).
Perhaps these cards stay with the vehicles rather than the drivers, or was he actually expected to work like that?

Interesting that an Enviro 400 was on the 360 -- it suggests that it was also on the 329, depending on how long ago this was.