Arriva North West - Runcorn Depot

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RE: Arriva North West - Runcorn Depot

(17/12/2020 20:11)Liamkennedy2231 Wrote:  Would I be correct in assuming it’s the operator who runs the service that feeds Google Maps’ data?

The journey planner seems to think the Warrington journeys on the 62 are operated by Arriva and not WOB, and that they also cross Silver Jubilee.

Could just be a mistake, or maybe it could indicate former or future plans when the bridge reopens.

I think that the raw GPS and time data comes from ETM data which is usually hosted by the ETM supplier, in the case of Arriva, Ticketer. If the operator of a service is being wrongly reported I expect that to be the bustimes own database. Wrong bus numbers are almost always the fault of whoever last mounted the ETM on the bus [engineering or supervisory staff in general] who have to reassign the fleet number before it goes in service. ETMs usually get their system time from t'internet. Sometimes the 4G signal gets lost [isolated areas or sim card issues] and the ETM can lose the plot.