A long and tiring day, my first trip to the North East during the Corona Lockdown period, interesting to see how it is being handled around the country. I think genrally it is quite a low key approach, certainly never found another place like Doncaster who were right off their heads about it. It was a chance to see the new buses which aren't actually so new now at Stockton, Darlington and middlebrough plus on down from Newcastle which was in overall white. Stockton and Darlington were ok with services about 70% of pre pandemic maybe less then Middlesbrough where just a tiny part of the bus station is being used, just one door perhaps and most of the top deck well all is roped off. It felt like hard work but once again wonderfully friendly drivers. We met on of our Youtube viewers at Darlington which is always pleasant. Then I managed to get an hour at Durham, here it was about 80% of pre pandemic or getting on that way. Looks like they have problems in the bus station with piling going on I understand it was out of action at one stage, again everyone very friendly. Parking free in Durham and Stockton. Anyway thats 5 DVDs to get edited over next couple of days, lousy weather outlook, I'll see if I can get anywhere Monday next to see the demand for buses when the shops reopen. Saw a second bus full-social distancing on screen at Darlo but when it stopped the passengers got off and obviously the sign went! Still catching up from yesterdays filming so its Rochdale tonight slide show. Please remeber these posts appear on our own website, I copy them to Facebook but don't actively like to use it. Still waiting for an explanation from Cheshire West and Chester council regarding the awful new system to get Mandys blue badge renewed, they are almost as bad as the PIP people. Comments are closed.
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