(05 Jul 2020, 10:50 pm)deanmachine wrote There's certain journey's where you can carry almost nobody to be fair, but over most of the corridor people seem to pick the 60 over every other route. I've been at the back of a queue of buses before 61/23/39 (for example), and people let all three of those buses past and stick their hand out for my 60.
It's a bit messy the buses down there imo. Personally if I was GNE; I'd create a loop around Seaham bridging the gap at Princess Road something like that https://goo.gl/maps/og8cvfxJFHcH1SgR7 and run them both every 20 minutes and merge them with the 61 and have an upto every 7 minute services with the Drifters, most the route is the same. The only thing your losing is through Deneside it would be every 7 then 13 minutes instead of a clockwork 10.
At the same time I'd renumbed the 39 to the 3 and merge it with the 2 as Black Cats or whatever else and advertise those together; everything else can go out of it since the routes are almost identical most of it.
Simple changes; no PVR changes but creating 'frequent' services which already exist but have irrelvant numbers to each other or are every 10/12 minutes and 20 minutes so can't combine and should stop people avoiding one bus for another.
