(11 Feb 2024, 8:47 pm)V514DFT wrote X21 upped to every 15 minutes, you're living in a dream world if you think that'll ever happen
It did happen pre COVID, but I don't think it was particularly successful, hard to really tell given how limited of a time frame it ran in and world is a different place now.
(11 Feb 2024, 6:46 pm)Storx wrote They'd be better ordering 12 single deckers for the X21 imo and upping it to every 20 minutes.
If they worked with the 6, they'd offer a nice clean 10 minute service between Bishop and Durham rather than the absolutely crap 20, 10, 10, 20, 0 frequency they offer right now. Absolutely shocking timetabling having 2 buses following each other for 60 minutes and a complete waste of resources. Similar for the 85 should be scrapped and the 6 extended to Barnard Castle considering yet again they follow each other to Cockfield, that should be funded by BSIP as it would be actually be useful. There should be an hourly link between Barnard Castle and Durham imo.
In turn they could scrap the Brandon extension since the 21 has bad enough time delays as it is, getting it away from Neville's Cross would help it massively.
Doesn't really matter what you'd do with the X21 South of Durham given how bad the 6 can be for keeping to time quite often, I have often thought about the 6 doing Barney all day but knowing what the 6 is like is off putting, would also make timetabling the other Teesdale routes difficult and likely wouldn't likely save much resources, just a pity that while the 6 & 85 currently run 25-35 mins apart Bishop bound, they're very closely times together Cockfield bound, 85 also serves Evenwood Gate rather than running along Copeland Road to reach Evenwood.