(04 Sep 2015, 4:15 pm)Jimmi wrote Hopefully they will promote the service as otherwise if they don't it will probably flop. Same with the X24 to the MetroCentre, I think that service could do better if Arriva promoted it more.
That service would do better if it ran at a more useful frequency. Once every two hours doesn't tempt me to save money and just buy Arriva day ticket instead of an explorer which increases my choices from a bus every 2 hours to a choice of buses every few minutes. It doesn't help, for me, of course, that the 22 often pulls in at the station just as the X22 is leaving and the only time we've ever caught an x24 is when we had to go into Durham first because I'd sooner change at Gateshead than twiddle my thumbs in Durham bus station for 28 minutes.