(23 Jan 2015, 6:32 pm)Jimmi wrote Seems a bit silly numbering it as the 238 when there is already a service 238 in Sunderland.
They might change it. It's happened before - take the 'Pronto' X21 and 'Sapphire' X21 in Newcastle.
I've been in Eldon Square when some dopey OAPs went to get on an X1, a Red Arrows B9, assuming it was the Arriva one back to Middlesbrough. They hadn't even looked at the destination! - they'd just seen a bus with X1 number on and assumed it was the one to take them back home. I can only guess they got mixed up with the X1/X2 thing and guessed the X1 waiting was for Middlesbrough, you would think they'd read the blind and checked if it was the X2 or not. Just a few stops down was an Arriva Gemini!
Begs the question - do some people just look at the number (or if they even do that at all!) or even bother to check the desti?
No wonder some people get lost - poor example I know but if someone hasn't used the 71 since the Sunderland changes (not the current ones - when it used to serve Sunderland itself) a couple of years back and assumes it takes them to Sunderland (having not read the destination blind). They could end up in 'the zone'!
