(08 Mar 2016, 7:46 pm)S813 FVK wrote There are plenty more options to go to Blyth, Cramlington and Seaton Sluice, most of which are MAX, too.
There's pretty substantial areas in those towns where the nearest stop for the X9/X10/X11 is quite a distance away without having to connect. For example, in east areas of Cramlington near Klondyke and High Pit, the only service to Newcastle is the half-hourly X8. On the other hand, Quorum is served by the X7 too (meaning twice as many MAX Arriva buses) and Stagecoaches' X63 (quarter-hourly). Throw on the 52 and there's an extra two buses an hour. If one bus is delayed, it doesn't have such a substantial knock on effect.
My point being there are people who use and rely on the X7/X8 that can't feasibly use other Blyth-Newcastle MAX routes and it's not fair to elongate/delay those routes just to serve more of Quorum when the current setup, according to previous posters in this thread, is still accessible.