(21 Jun 2023, 9:39 pm)F114TML wrote I don't think it is necessarily sad, considering the 3 (for example) is made up of the 2 (Town - Farringdon), 3 (Town - Plains Farm - Gilley Law) and 27 (Town - North Hylton Road - Hylton Castle), and was there really a need for three routes between Thorney Close, the Town and Fulwell/Dene Estate? Christ knows what a certain someone hellbent on diverting the 61 just cos would've made of that!I remember in the late 80s , the 23, 24 and 25 going from Thorney Close over to Seaburn area. Throw in the 22 around mid 1990s.
(21 Jun 2023, 9:30 pm)stagecoachbusdepot wrote Worrying when it's been produced by professional cartographers, I'd assumed it was in house when I saw it!
Might partly be because they have opted for thin lines for the routes but it struck me how sparse the coverage looks, but then the South Shields one is same format and looks on first glance as being a lot more comprehensive in terms of network coverage. It's been discussed before but sad to see really what was a network of around 30 services in the Sunderland Busways days reduced to 12 now (excluding the Es which were always Shields' operated till recently).
Also the part of the map thst details sevice pick ups and drop offs in the town. It still mentions Gilley Law in relation to service 3.