(20 Jul 2015, 10:05 am)Tom wrote The 97 will only be every 20 minutes at some will terminate in Whickham.
Also with regards to the X30/X31 they can be very busy, saw an Omnidekka full when I was in town on Saturday, but it just depends on the time of day. Also, won't there be the same number of buses between Stanley and Newcastle if the 44/44A will only be every 30 minutes?
Don't you think 20 minutes will be enough? That's better than what we get up here in Stanley (a majority of routes are 30 minutes without running alongside another route). I must be honest, i wasn't focusing on the proposed frequency when i made the original comment about the 97 - it is currently 15 minutes throughout. Any less and i think we may start to have them running in twos.
You also have to remember that there was an event on in Newcastle on Saturday too. A lot of people who went would have probably used the bus as opposed to trying to find a car park with spaces. The only journeys that get busy would be the normal journeys for any service, the 'peak timers' which i suppose, in reality, is the only reason for deckers to exist on those particular routes as full scania omnicity operation clearly wasn't working.