Southern are again having issues with an under-supply of rail replacement buses ferrying people between Gatwick and Three Bridges on the Brighton main line, which is causing significant queues (and according to an internal brief tweeted recently, apparently risking closure of London's second busiest airport entirely, though taking that with a pinch of salt).
I completely understand here that the works are necessary and that the particularly good weather isn't helping in terms of demand for trains to/from Brighton, but the good weather has been forecast for at least a week and at the very least I'd have hoped after similar widely-reported issues with undersupply of buses at Redhill a few weeks ago (which wasn't on a bank holiday!) that they'd have put out a statement explaining why they haven't been able to get as many buses as they'd like.Instead they're again just stating they'll 'review feedback'.
Contrast this with the East Midlands Trains block between Bedford and Leicester on a couple of weekends recently (as just one example) - organised, orderly queues at both ends, with an oversupply of buses in case of increased demand.
Not being particularly well versed on how rail replacement buses are organised, is there a reason one is so much more well organised than the other? I get that the Bank Holiday weekend with this weather is going to put additional demand on these buses (and reduce availability of them) but as they managed to get 40 extra buses on the day, I'm wondering why this couldn't have been done earlier in the week, as one thought...
I completely understand here that the works are necessary and that the particularly good weather isn't helping in terms of demand for trains to/from Brighton, but the good weather has been forecast for at least a week and at the very least I'd have hoped after similar widely-reported issues with undersupply of buses at Redhill a few weeks ago (which wasn't on a bank holiday!) that they'd have put out a statement explaining why they haven't been able to get as many buses as they'd like.Instead they're again just stating they'll 'review feedback'.
Contrast this with the East Midlands Trains block between Bedford and Leicester on a couple of weekends recently (as just one example) - organised, orderly queues at both ends, with an oversupply of buses in case of increased demand.
Not being particularly well versed on how rail replacement buses are organised, is there a reason one is so much more well organised than the other? I get that the Bank Holiday weekend with this weather is going to put additional demand on these buses (and reduce availability of them) but as they managed to get 40 extra buses on the day, I'm wondering why this couldn't have been done earlier in the week, as one thought...