(15 Aug 2013, 11:12 am)CatsFast101 wrote I'm little confused what you mean, I thought the 71, since it was curtailed at Houghton, ran up Dairy Lane then onto Burn Park Road and onto Houghton Town Centre (Newbottle Street) then at the Broadway then out onto Dairy Lane. What's changed?
Before when it was 71 to Sunderland it would serve all the way up Dairy Lane and serve the opposing side of the broadway.
It has always gone all the way up Dairy Lane, onto Broadway. Since it stopped running to Sunderland, it ran NIS up Newbottle Street and turned around at the roundabout.
However, over the last few weeks, I have seen it heading up Burn Park Road (the same route as the M1) AS WELL AS heading the entire length of Dairy Lane (just like the 20a and 35a).
It can't have a flexible route, because as far as I'm aware, the timetables on Dairy Lane, still display the 71.
In fact when I was last on it just 2 weeks ago, it stopped to let someone off and let someone on opposite Ninelands, half way up Dairy Lane and obviously beyond the junction with Burn Park Road.