Really its hard to find a fix to Dalton Park, Doxford Park, Follingsby without disrupting someones journey.

To make these routes successful you need to plan a route which take workers and passengers where they want to go, I wonder how many people that work at Follingsby live past the Tyne Tunnel, or Past the MetroCentre, or Sunderland. The truth this people might not mind 1 hour on the bus, compared to 30 mins in the car, its when you have to change in Gateshead, Heworth or Houghton.

E.g you live in Crawcrook you'll need to change atleast 3 times. Im not saying every single destination will get a service, but the fact that GNE could do an express from Sunderland to Newcastle via Heworth, Doxford & Follingsby, then maybe peak times when shifts finish do a peak time service on the express to Crawcrook.

Perhaps the 61/63 could be turned into a loop, Sunderland > A690 (into the little areas), Doxford, A19, Murton, New Seaham, then 61A to Sunderland there is no need for the 61 to do the 60 way into Sunderland.

Or bring in the 62 which again could go via Doxford it would provide links to the A690, Sunderland Colllege, Doxford Park, Seaham, Easington Village, Peterlee.

But it is the idea to have enough passengers wanting to go to Doxford Park, while getting enough lesuire passengers to supplement route.