(21 Apr 2020, 1:22 pm)JP6004 wrote Maybe the frequency has dropped because there isn't the demand there once was. If the demand was there back then and now, the link would have continued. And the numbers have only dropped because majority of people can use 20 to complete their full journey. Its quicker than 35 is on the sunderland to Houghton section.

As Spock said, the needs of the many, outweigh the needs of the few

That's defiantly one of the points, of why its been downgraded but also because the Scania Euro 5 upgrade contract said, as previously said they needed to stay in Sunderland because of this, and the only route to get all of them on was was the 35 - after all the other routes were upgraded,however it should be upgraded once Deptford gets the Streetlites from the Red Kite... whether that's Streetlites or another kind of bus.