Write down if the services are late , terrible times to run and other inconvieniancies


Eg:

935 Sunderland Park Lane - Witherwack Estate VIA City Centre , Chester Road , Pallion , Hylton Retail Park , Laburnum Grove , Hylton Castle Estate and Downhill Kingsway


What on earth are these runs ! According to google maps from Wiltshire Road Turning Circle the 935 run 5:41 and 6:41 in the morning !

Seriously what !

Some people have to go to work at that time in the morning.

I honestly don't understand how (or why) the 935 has survived so long when the 135/136 went years ago now (and there are parts of the route, such as Thompson Road, which are basically unserved). I presume that Nexus are still funding this? Passenger numbers, from when I was a driver, were fairly low. I recall picking up (and dropping off when it was the 135/136) a member of Nexus staff as a 'regular' from Town End Farm.

If you were going from Witherwack or Redhouse to Sunderland Hospital, surely you would get the 16 anyway?

57A: North Shields to Whitley Bay on Evenings / Sunday

Really don't understand why it exists nowadays when every daytime service in the area runs on an evening anyway. It leads to a bizarre situation where there's more buses from North Shields to Rake Lane at 11pm (3 BPH) than during the day (2 BPH) and I believe Nexus is funding the whole 3 BPH aswell (317 Evenings)

My cousin was a bus driver and he said that the 23 from Thorney Close-Dene Estate also had a doppelganger route numbered 24 , also beetween Thorney Close and Dene Estate so one must've been taken more and the other must've been less used untill the 24 got withdrawn.

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Heard a Friend say that "The West Monkseaton Metro Sshould be renamed to South Wellfield Metro because South Wellfield Is closer"

(Yesterday, 9:32 pm)Storx wrote 57A: North Shields to Whitley Bay on Evenings / Sunday

Really don't understand why it exists nowadays when every daytime service in the area runs on an evening anyway. It leads to a bizarre situation where there's more buses from North Shields to Rake Lane at 11pm (3 BPH) than during the day (2 BPH) and I believe Nexus is funding the whole 3 BPH aswell (317 Evenings)

I believe the 57A only runs to make a 30 min service to North Shields down Billy mill lane as 354 doesn’t run on evenings

(Today, 6:04 am)EastGatesheadRider wrote My cousin was a bus driver and he said that the 23 from Thorney Close-Dene Estate also had a doppelganger route numbered 24 , also beetween Thorney Close and Dene Estate so one must've been taken more and the other must've been less used untill the 24 got withdrawn.

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Heard a Friend say that "The West Monkseaton Metro Sshould be renamed to South Wellfield Metro because South Wellfield Is closer"

24 was Thorney Close to Seaburn and omitted Dene Estate 

They then withdrew the 24 and extended 23 from Dene Estate to Seaburn

Not much difference otherwise

(Yesterday, 9:32 pm)Storx wrote 57A: North Shields to Whitley Bay on Evenings / Sunday

Really don't understand why it exists nowadays when every daytime service in the area runs on an evening anyway. It leads to a bizarre situation where there's more buses from North Shields to Rake Lane at 11pm (3 BPH) than during the day (2 BPH) and I believe Nexus is funding the whole 3 BPH aswell (317 Evenings)

I see it as a good working. It works well on evenings & Sundays. 

Rake lane as it is currently especially into Whitley Bay during the day has enough buses. Its annoying that there is only one bus from North Shields to Rake lane. 

Same could be said about the rest of the hospitals in the North East. The fact the 57 was the only bus to Cramlington Hospital for the longest time till the 43 went on Sundays & 19 only in March. 

Lets talk about this funny thing. Freeman Hospital has a better bus service than Newcastle main hospital the RVI. Let that sink in. Freeman Hospital has more bus links than the RVI

(Today, 9:17 am)Nerd4321 wrote I see it as a good working. It works well on evenings & Sundays. 

Rake lane as it is currently especially into Whitley Bay during the day has enough buses. Its annoying that there is only one bus from North Shields to Rake lane. 

Same could be said about the rest of the hospitals in the North East. The fact the 57 was the only bus to Cramlington Hospital for the longest time till the 43 went on Sundays & 19 only in March. 

Lets talk about this funny thing. Freeman Hospital has a better bus service than Newcastle main hospital the RVI. Let that sink in. Freeman Hospital has more bus links than the RVI

Nah I get what you're saying tbf, see I could see arguments for it all day but without the day service it just seems an odd extension (it's very much legacy).

See from a hospital point of view, I think it'd be better to find a way to run the 57 from Cramlington to Whitley Bay instead. Northumbria Hospital actually doesn't have a bus service in the evening right now which imo is appalling, nor does East Cramlington. 

ie something like:


By scrapping the 19 extension and instead doing a 57 extension instead. It's all PVR and subsidy neutral. The 57 is a much busier service than the 19 during the day and generally the 57/57A is doing quite well lately tbf to it.

Go North East's 4 for me. Because it's a lot less frequent now, and without any alternatives, it's literally stop start all the way from Washington to Heworth.

Without the Follingsby diversion, this could be done in well under 20 minutes.

GNEs 16/16A. Somehow with or without traffic the buses are constantly late, a lot up to 20 minutes late. Constant breakdowns. Despite double deckers being needed, I feel they don't suit the route as there are so many elderly and disabled people who can not go upstairs, making the downstairs extremely crowded when the upstairs could be empty..

(7 hours ago)Iamtheone8483748 wrote GNEs 16/16A. Somehow with or without traffic the buses are constantly late, a lot up to 20 minutes late. Constant breakdowns. Despite double deckers being needed, I feel they don't suit the route as there are so many elderly and disabled people who can not go upstairs, making the downstairs extremely crowded when the upstairs could be empty..

Completely agreed. Ive tried to use it many times as a cross town service for medical appointments in consett (Shotley Bridge to Leadgate) and had to get a taxi due to delays. Some people do use it from end to end due to occasional reliability issues with the X15 but not often.

Been noticing some trouble with the E2 from Monkwearmouth Tescos , On my way back to Whitburn I have been noticing some bad lateness with not only me but other passengers gotten so bad I just ended up getting the ED4 to Peterlee to stay at my friends house that night.

A historical one.......but Arriva's X6 when they had the initial ****show with changes in September 2012.

Was then split with:
- Extended 306 to W.Bay
- 51 (now 351)
- 54 (basically the old 356 but to W.Bay - now 354/54A in most parts)