(16 Nov 2013, 9:20 am)Kuyoyo wrote You do understand that it is a Voluntary shift on Boxing Day, therefore they can only put on services depending on the amount of drivers that have put their name forward. There then also the question - what is commercially viable when the drivers are on double time plus anything extra?
Read through the previous posts - it has already been said that services should be added instead of services which are duplicating others.
I reckon a viable service is one which links key shopping areas with key residential areas - Low Moorsley, Hetton, Herrington Burn etc are all receiving regular services to Sunderland, which will be a ghost town compared to the Metrocentre and Newcastle.
Just a hunch like, but with one of the biggest indoor shopping centres in Europe and 52,000 people wanting to watch a football match, just a few miles away - fed by one of the busiest main roads outside London, a few extra buses heading in that direction rather than carrying fresh air in other places may be a tad more viable.