(29 Dec 2014, 8:50 pm)Dan wrote Service 83 is withdrawn and partially replaced in the areas where there are the most customers, with the interworking cycle being as follows:
82: Heworth - Donwell - Concord - Barmston (via Spout Lane and Barmston Village Centre) - Biddick - Galleries - Ayton - Rickleton
82A: Rickleton - Harraton - Ayton - Galleries - Biddick - Barmston (via Hertburn Industrial Estate and Barmston Waskerley Road) - Concord
82A: Concord - Barmston (via Hertburn Industrial Estate and Barmston Waskerley Road) - Biddick - Galleries - Ayton - Birtley
82: Birtley - Ayton - Galleries - Biddick - Barmston (via Spout Lane and Barmston Village Centre) - Concord - Donwell - Heworth
This is similar to the current interworking pattern: when an 82 arrives into Birtley, it departs as an 83, following the appropriate route variant in Portobello, Rickleton and Harraton.
Instead of direct via the Felling Bypass, service 82 will now operate via Meresyde and Grange Crescent in Leam Lane, following passenger requests, creating new direct links from this area. Currently there is a 15-minute combined frequency from Concord to Heworth, but this is reduced to a 30-minute frequency. Customers can instead use service 4 which operates every 10 minutes during Monday - Saturday daytimes.
In Birtley, the service will be extended to the new housing estate at Northside, serving Highridge, Blackfell Way and Mount Pleasant Road.
But it's not the case with these changes as the way I read it,
Rickleton as an example used to/currently get the 83 half hourly to Heworth and half hourly to Birtley. As any normal service does.
Now the way I read the timetable, passengers in Rickleton can use the 82 from Heworth, Concord, Galleries into Rickleton.
However there's no 82 in the other direction. Passengers instead have the 82A to Concord or Galleries and no link to Heworth.
So they can't get to Heworth without a change but they can get from Heworth.
Should be simplified,
82: Heworth-Rickleton
82A: Concord-Birtley
And the same in reverse so an area has the same service number/numbers going to the same places.