(12 Apr 2022, 12:19 pm)Storx wrote The thing is the subsidy in the evening is a big alarm bell for a route as it means it's marginal already. If it wasn't then the night services wouldn't be subsidised at all as the profit in the day could carry the evening services over, no company would happily let GCT run their routes. Minibuses carrying 7 or so passengers a journey aren't going to be making money. It's no different to the 11 and 42 in North Tyneside which have just gone. All the mod cons and that but looking at bus times but the 3 buses on the unique section of the 39/39A atm are carrying 3 passengers between them. The 2/2A does the rest of the route. For Washington it's an average of 4 passengers per bus and it's been lifted by the 1 bus with 15 PAX on atm. They're all at massive risk if cuts are coming. Same as Stagecoach 8 and 18 for some balance in Sunderland.

For the 33 there's questions why it needs to exist at all it duplicates the Stagecoach service 13. Similar with the 38 which duplicates the Stagecoach 12 and GNE 2A and the 55 with the 20/X1/62.

For 33 it may be a duplicate but when Im in Sunderland it is regularly busy, 38 picks up people.

There is no denying the 39/39A are quite low used during the day, but they seem to make enough money to make a profit, no matter how much it is still a profit.