(16 Nov 2013, 9:26 am)andreos1 wrote 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.
So you want Deptford based drivers who have voultneered to work Boxing Day to be suddenly told 'by the way, the majority of the shifts are based out of Gateshead because there is where someone who has no idea about running a bus company thinks all the money is going to be', you would see the voultneer numbers drop and an even smaller skeleton services provided compared to what it is at present. It's logic that they've asked for voultneers and then put on the services they can provide instead of the other way round!