(05 Oct 2021, 3:56 pm)cbma06 wrote Sunderland interchange should of been roughly same design as the Middlesbrough bus station, at least waiting area is all indoors
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Aye agreed, I personally hate Gateshead aswell. Another badly designed bus station imo with so much wasted space that the majority of buses are trying to jam on 4 stands (K - M) which leads to timetables where buses are scheduled to be on the stand at the same time (17:45) X12 and 25 then on another stand the 57 and 51 being both due at (17:45) aswell. Just causes gridlock. The Newcastle bound stands are also really disconnected if you want to change aswell having to cross the road with buses usually driving like tools.
It's a shame because both have enough land to be done like Boro but in typical Nexus fashion they went for the cheap option.
(05 Oct 2021, 4:02 pm)Keeiajs wrote Maybe, but I would argue sunderland bus station needs to be a lot bigger than Middlesbrough, and I would love to meet the people who designed Park lane interchange and okayed it to be all open when it is in NE England and we have winter and rain and the wind, my god that bus station is nothing but a wind tunnel poor drivers.
Not sure it does tbh. Boro has 21 stands (+ 3 coach stands) with 14 layover stands to get out the way when there's too many buses. I'd be very surprised if there's more than 21 buses needing to be in the bus station at the same time tbh if it was done right.