(21 Aug 2015, 10:18 pm)aureolin wrote The 22/24 are always late. One of my mates lives up Thornley way, and he's forever on at Arriva about reliability. We've discussed their inability to regulate services for yonks now though, haven't we?

It's been much, much better since the end of October when the 22 got the Sunderland run. Before that I used to see buses running just a few minutes apart, which is terrible for a half hourly service. When it was hourly, they'd just get cancelled. I never bothered travelling to Durham unless I had an appointment. I have a feeling that the 24 now gets the bulk of the late runs, though. Even if there's no roadworks, on the route, it can take forever to do that windy run through Pennine drive etc in Peterlee if people are badly parked.