(05 Jan 2021, 7:05 pm)ifm001 wrote Not sure where your coming from here. 15 min service between the 2 points with the limited stop services stopping at various points in between . As I've said before in other posts too many services on 10/12 min frequencies utilising more drivers with smaller vehicles. Make the frequency longer with 15/20/30 min services with larger vehicles less drivers used. This will enable other drivers to be used for increase in services that need frequency increases or new services that are needed elsewhere apparantley.
Because there's many bus stops in between. For someone say travelling from Miller & Carter to South Shields, you've gone from a 12 minute service to a 30 minute service. That's a massive cut in service; every 12 minutes is pretty much turn up and go, every 30 minutes isn't. The limited stop service here doesn't make sense as there won't be many people travelling end to end, it's about the intermediate stops. You might aswell just drop it to every 15 minutes throughout but there's other areas in Sunderland if you want to cut services which should go first.
If you want to do stuff like that then the best service would be the 60 and drop it to every 20 minutes and interwork it with the 61 for a 10 minute service through the core section. With a hourly X8 doing a quicker service to Parkside etc and then you'd have a 20 minute express service to Seaham aswell and a much quicker service from Parkside etc even known it's only hourly.