(12 Oct 2022, 11:19 am)Andreos1 wrote
If I was living in say Penshaw and worked at Doxford Park, public transport isn't a viable or attractive alternative to walking, cycling or the car.
Chuck in places that are a similar distance, such as Grindon, Pennywell, Seaham, Fencehouses and residents are all in a similar position.
You're talking 2 or 3 buses in the wrong direction, the inevitable wait and a walk for the majority of them to get to work. The same home.
This is a key employment site. Not some backwater, 1980s industrial estate.
The fact they've had to invest more time and money in widening approaches to the site, again reinforces the need to improve public transport.
There's already a works service for all of North Sunderland
https://bustimes.org/services/594-doxfor...-roker#map
There's no demand for more services, bus companies can't be forced to serve places built in the wrong place and sending other buses there will piss passengers off as no-one wants a merry go round drive around a business park for 10 minutes. There's also the 39A/39B from the West which most people could connect to.
It's not an easy fix but sending every bus around there on a 10 minute detour isn't the answer either. Mind there should be some works service from the South I agree with but there's the old council boundary problem there.