(09 Aug 2014, 7:26 pm)AIG20 wrote Every time I have seen the open-top "South Shields Shuttle" bus operating its CS2 service from the Town Centre to Gypsies Green, it has either been carrying very few to no passengers at all.
Therefore, I think it would be a good idea if an open-top "Economic" service was introduced which would operate the same route as the CS2 to Gypsies Green, and carry on along the full stretch of the Coast Road all the way to the city centre (which will include Mill Lane, East Street, Whitburn Bents Road, Roker Terrace, Dame Dorothy Street, John Street and Park Lane Interchange - as well as Roker Avenue and Church Street North heading out of the city centre). It would have a frequency of every 20 minutes and be ran by Ex-London Dennis Tridents in "Economic" livery.
I wonder why the original open-top service 22 (operating between Seaburn and South Shields) was withdrawn.
Stagecoach didn't want to run it after purchase of Busways. Stagecoach got a management male person from another Stagecoach depot from down south to reshape the bus services from Wheatsheaf Depot, this is why midi routes were withdrawn (21 etc..), service 15/16 changed into service 16, service 2/3 changed to service 3 etc... etc... streamlined all the bus services, after that the Wheatsheaf depot was making more profit and the management person got a huge bonus. This is what happens with the likes of Stagecoach buying other operators out, services get cut to the bone.