WelshBluebird
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With extensive Engineering Work currently taking place, especially between Cardiff/Newport/Bristol Parkway and involving heavy bustitution, GWR Twitter frequently revealing bus drivers getting lost and, on occasions, not even know where they are supposed to be going.
Not unusual sadly . At least Cardiff - Newport - Bristol is relatively simple. The worst I've experienced was a driver on a replacement bus on the Valley Lines between Cardiff and Treherbert. Literally no idea. Though I guess Cardiff to Bristol being simpler means drivers getting lost is even worse!
In terms of the current disruption, the worst I had was a month ago when rail replacement buses were operating from Cardiff to Bristol at the same time the Brynglas tunnels had a planned closure. Cue utter chaos with what was a 1 hour timetabled bustitution taking 2.5 hours, staff having no idea what was going on, and people waiting ages at Cardiff and Bristol to buses (as the ones they had were obviously taking longer to be ready for the return trip). I could understand if it was an unplanned closure, but it was a planned on. How on earth GWR didn't plan for that I have no idea. I may have already mentioned this on this forum (or even thread!) but it was so bad I can't help mentioning it again!