(19 Sep 2013, 3:47 pm)nk55 wrote Some people on here are so cynical of what gne do or try to do.....X3,X36,X7,X84,X85 will all fail you say. Going to durham uni just to have a dig at arriva!!!!, you obviously need to open your eyes at arriva services X1 crook-bishop-darlington was only introduced because gne seen an opportunity to quicken the then current 1/1B, now what has arriva done when the ok1 was withdrawn from crook?, withdrew the 1/1B from crook. service 6 extended around woodhouse estate every 12mins because everybody was using the jsb9 or ok18 and from durham to framwellgate moor to get passengers off the X21 going to college. Service 51 from haymarket to take passengers off the 307. How many routes do gne have to durham?, think they maybe trying to get folk out of cars and on to buses?
Not sure about others, but the only points I have made relating to those services (as far as I can remember) re the above services are as follows:
* x3 - GNE have never been able to make a bus work along the Newcastle Road corridor between Newcastle and Sunderland. I am not sure what was going to be different with this attempt. Lo and behold, after a short while the modern vehicles are shifted off, the branding is dropped and after a brief respite, the service is reduced.
* x7 - I am still convinced this should have called at Dalton Park and missed out Seaham.
There are any amount of buses between Sunderland and Seaham. Dalton Park has excellent bus connections - if you live in Seaham.
Sending it via Doxford Park and Dalton Park prior to picking up the current route around Peterlee would have made some excellent links even better.
* x84/85 - Surely sending one of these via the Metrocentre would have worked? Another missed opportunity I feel.
Obviously the team who came up with the ideas for these services felt they would work in their current format.
As a member of this forum, all I (and others) can do is voice our opinions.
As for the Durham Uni and Arriva comment - I certainly didn't see anything specifying it was a dig at Arriva.
I commented on the fact they were going to a building which was well away from the GNE network.
I am not too sure it is being cynical either.