(10 Jun 2015, 10:03 pm)Malarkey wrote I think issue is purely down to the routing of the Service around Birtley, Think of how many Minutes you could cut off the current route around Birtley by doing the following route: Note the Timetable says it takes 14 Minutes to go from Portobello Board Inn to Northside, so that is 28 Minutes their and back.
So I would do: Barley Mow - Portobello - Portmeads - Fell Bank - Harras Bank - Birtley Town Centre - Northside - Portmeads - Portobello - Barley Mow
I would imagine this would cut around 7/8 Minutes off the Journey Time altogether possibly more.
That then means that the people of Fell Bank couldn't get a bus from there to Galleries. I got told by a driver that I couldn't get on at Moulders to go to Galleries and he charged me £1.50 to go down a bank and then a further £1.50 for the rest of the journey.