(04 Sep 2015, 7:11 pm)BusLoverMum wrote That service would do better if it ran at a more useful frequency. Once every two hours doesn't tempt me to save money and just buy Arriva day ticket instead of an explorer which increases my choices from a bus every 2 hours to a choice of buses every few minutes. It doesn't help, for me, of course, that the 22 often pulls in at the station just as the X22 is leaving and the only time we've ever caught an x24 is when we had to go into Durham first because I'd sooner change at Gateshead than twiddle my thumbs in Durham bus station for 28 minutes.
Every 2 hours isn't an ideal frequency. If I am on my own it normally takes me at most 90 minutes to get round the MetroCentre so two hours between buses isn't too bad for me but for most the 2 hourly frequency will not be ideal.