Go North East: Service Suggestions v2
Go North East: Service Suggestions v2
In reply to another post on the other thread so I don't derail it.
Not going to lie probably not a bad shout with the curtailing the 39/39A. I'd probably be tempted to curtail the 2/2A at Sunderland aswell tbh.
Then create a new loop service like - https://www.google.com/maps/dir/54.90201...63!1m0!3e0
Which is part of the 2 and 33 and keeps the link to the hospital including new links from Silksworth and links from Chester Road / Ryhope to Sainsbury's every 30 minutes
Then you'd have the 39 as the current route maybe extended to Houghton like you said
with the 39A running as https://www.google.com/maps/dir/54.90450...ee!1m0!3e0 to keep the other 2 links.
There's no real loss of services anywhere but it's pulled a few off the PVR, all minibuses which obviously means they're not the most popular anyway.
If you then interworked the 2/2A/loop service/35 you'd have a 7.5 minute service to the hospital from Sunderland and 15 minute service from Barnes Park and then the 39/39A/loop service/61 at the other side you'd have a 7.5 minute service between Sunderland and Grangetown so the 35/61 aren't the two awkward routes duplicating everything else anymore.