(10 Oct 2022, 8:07 pm)ALavery wrote Why on earth would you take it to parkside? It’s an “express” service that should finish at the harbour leaving an easy route in and out of seaham. Realistically it would be better off going either the X6 route to the harbour or the 65 route. But then that could be also done by timing the X10 and 65 a bit better especially on an evening.X1 to parkside would really be to replace the lost 62 links, aswell as im pretty sure Andreos (sorry if I spelt that wrong) put in a map for older routes to Newcastle so I just thought why not, maybe some 65 can be extended upto Parkside to re-connect people.
About the parkside thing. Realistically there should be some sort of 60A which in my eyes would take the 61A route to B&M then follow the normal 60 route until new strangford roundabout where it would turn up into dawdon then to the harbour or dalton park if it really needed to. That gives a replacement to the 62.
Tbf Dalton Park does desperately need better connections, there has been nothing but cuts especially links with the X10.
If there is going to be any 60A, it would need to be changed after New Seaham towards Sunderland possibly hourly via Doxford Park
Parkside - Princess Road - Seaham - Business Parks - ( Possibly Dalton park & murton) - New Seaham - Doxford Park - Sunderland hourly tbf then in peaks it can run with school buses if needed.