(06 Aug 2021, 2:47 pm)Jimmi wrote 71 is an awkward one with it going through multiple council areas, starts and ends in County Durham but the mid part of the route is in Nexus land with most of the route being covered by other services albeit not with direct links to CLS or SeahamI'm not sure what the answer is with the 71 situation. The 78 duplicates most of the route west of Fence Houses (although not FH itself) and the 4 covers most of Fence Houses to Houghton.
Houghton to Seaham "feels" like it needs a bus route but that costs you a bus alone. I wonder if it would have been more of a success back in the day if the Seaham part was tagged on a 4 once an hour ,like the proposed extensions to the X1