(06 Jun 2021, 8:58 am)ifm001 wrote A solution to this would be to withdraw the 5 altogether. Revise the 50 / 50A to 50 / 51 / 52 and increase frequency Durham to Washington to Boldon as per normal 50 amd 50A and then send 52 via 5 from Boldon to Jarrow via Hedworth and Fellgate and the 51 to operate 5 and 50A routes between Shields and Jarrow. Maybe a few tweaks needed here and there but a plausible option.  Gives Jarrow and Fellgate direct services to Washington, Chester and Durham and keeps the link for Whiteleas etc.

The 50 is every 30 minutes though and the 5/50 run different routes between Boldon and South Shields?

So either your going to cut the service from half hourly to hourly on each of the spurs which you might aswell get arid of it as no-one wants an hourly service or increase it from 2 buses an hour to 6 buses an hour between Durham and Boldon which is insane, even 3 buses an hour is too many.