(08 Aug 2022, 8:21 pm)Unber43 wrote So today I thought I would go onto some of GNE new services and JH Coaches, so i did, 39B, 82, X7. 

One thing that struck me about Doxford Park is that all the car parks were full of cars, as GNE keep cutting services from Doxford, with the 20 evening service cancelled, 55 all day Doxford service cancelled & 39 being every 30 mins on a Saturday, and every 60 mins on an evening, every 90 on a sunday, GNE should do what they did with Follingsby and go around all the businesses as see where there employee live so GNE can offer services to them. 

Because the 39/39A/39B must be one of the worst routes, Its like going from Newcastle - Metrocentre - Chester Le Street - Gateshead - Chester-Le-Street - Metrocentre - Newcastle, it should be a loop.

In recent years, bus services (generally they all worked Sunderland - Houghton type routes) have been reduced in that area.


During the same period, the A690/A19 Interchange has had plenty of work done on it over the years.
Both lengthening and widening slip roads/junctions and working to improve the junction at Stoneygate.


Lots of reactive decision making. Very little proactive or creative planning.

Try looking at how easy it is to get from Penshaw to Doxford Park via bus and compare it to the car.
How about Bournmoor to Doxford Park. 
Seaham? 
Grindon?
Thorney Close? 
Murton? 

These aren't places that are miles away. These are the places the people who work in Doxford Park will be living.
Yet they can't use public transport easily, timely or efficiently. So they use the car and we see constant road improvement schemes to combat the traffic. 

Doxford Park isn't unique in this aspect either.