(26 Apr 2024, 10:04 pm)DaveFromUpNorth wrote And you see ladies and gentlemen
A classic example on why bus services fail
Too many changes instead of tweaks
Renumbered services is criminal
It doesn't benefit anyone except the office desk the infrequent passenger will be so confused you lose confidence
See personally, I'd just argue it's just reverting things to before they decided to meddle with everything which have never really worked leading to gaps allover the place ie. Annfield Plain, South Stanley and Dipton to the Metrocentre, Burnopfield to Durham etc. Want to go to Consett, great there's tonnes of routes but who really wants to go there?
The 16 and 28/29 make absolute no sense going the route they do as both routes are extended doglegs from end to end and the bits inbetween have another services duplicating it anyway whether that's the 78 for the 16 or 8, 34 and 78 for the 28/29.
The 43/44 routes were much better than the crap that has come after them which is too many to count (basically 6/7 above). Sometimes it's better to just hold your hands up and admit the mistake . These routes used to be regularly nearly standing load leaving Newcastle which can't be said about the current 6 whenever I used them.
I know some will bang on about interchanging at Stanley but no-one in their right mind will interchange between 2 30 minute bus services. If one is 5 minutes late you could be waiting for 25 minutes+ which is no doubt the same time as the full journey end to end in a car and since the butchering of the X30/X31 and M6/M7/M8 being removed it's basically what's offered.