(10 Aug 2015, 7:45 pm)mb134 wrote If enough people didn't like it, and complained, Arriva would have changed it in all likelihood.
I think people will know and understand why Arriva send it that way- so that it serves a whole side of a town, including Red House Farm, the Hazelmere estate, and a high school, as well as an entire village in Nedderton.
If I was waiting at Ashington, I'd be straight onto the X21 if the X20 didn't show.
If I was waiting in Ashington, I'd also be on the X21 or heading via Morpeth.
The problems with the X21/X22 now is the ridiculous cycle lanes, zebra crossings and council messing around between the Great Park A1 slip road and Barras Bridge, also the Seaton Burn roundabout, Park Road in Ashington for parked cars and resurfacing that doesn't need to happen, congestion in Ashington, oh and those slow 57-reg E400s. Once the new bus station opens in Ashington that'll be 5mins off every journey easy. If ever Newcastle City Council finish prancing around on the GNR then that'll be more improvements.