(06 Aug 2023, 6:33 pm)j986986 wrote Very surprised to see that Stagecoach are not doing anything about the 62 and 63 services to and from Killingworth. For ages now they have been suffering from extreme delays and quite a few cancellations. They also always end up following each other during the core sections of the route meaning that there is sometimes no buses for 15 minutes, when there is meant to be one every 7/8. You would think that they would either alter the timetable or the frequency especially as they have received many complaints about the two services…
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see years ago i heard rumors they were looking at trialing a service which covered the core route i think from west Denton shops turning circle, (where the 11 I think it is starts)
all the way through to four lane ends and it was meant to run 10-15 minutes ahead of the 62/63, I think it would have worked as the bulk of passengers apart from the throckley 62s tend to get on inbetween the west Denton and city center sections so a shorter length service running about 15 minutes ahead i think would have sorted a lot of problems,
i know that when the 71 runs ahead of the 62/63 a lot of the punters will jump on that instead, also for the barrack road section there tends to be alot of school kids who will jump on for literally the next one or two stops which bunches up the service massively