(28 Jun 2014, 12:48 pm)aureolin wrote Few slight route changes I've came up with.
Amend the Lime 8 service to split between having an 8/8A service. The 8 would take the same route as present, and run hourly between Stanley and Sunderland - no changes.
The 8A would run hourly too, and take the ame route as the 8 at present, but with one amendment. From Washington Galleries, the 8A would do Parkway - Abbey Road - Village Lane - Glebe Crescent - Emmerson Terrace - Northumberland Way - Station Road - Pattinson Road - Waterview Park - A19 Roundabout. Providing links to both the new shopping area and (soon to be pub) at Teal Farm, as well as a link between the village and Sunderland.
I've done a quick sketch on Google Maps for those not familiar with the streets - https://goo.gl/maps/hQmPc
Second amendment would be with the 4. Instead of terminating at Fallowfield Way on an evening and Sunday, it should run right down Biddick Lane, turn left at the Welfare, and serve the club and bars down the riverside, then back up Wormhill Terrace. I reckon you'd certainly get the numbers to make it worth doing, and it would only add an extra 2 minutes on to what you've got now.
That looks quite good - would be nice to have a route like that. One thing I must say that the 8 needs in both the direction of Sunderland AND Stanley is a new time schedule - as when they come off the motorway coming in from Sunderland at Chester they always hit the traffic, and then when coming back down from Stanley they hit it again, to make matters worse there's also driver changeovers up at Stanley! Miraculously though, when they come back around as a 78 they are only normally one or two minutes late, and if your lucky, on time!
