(20 Nov 2015, 9:18 pm)Adrian wrote The 37 should be axed imo. I don't know how Nexus can justify paying for the service. 

How many commercial services are doing sections of this route already? Sunderland - Barnes - Silksworth - Doxford, has god knows how many buses per hour. Sunderland - Herrington burn has at least 6. Sunderland to Concord has the 56, and Sunderland to Washington (via the Enterprise Park) has the 8.

Perhaps the better option would be to fund a diversion of the 8 to go via Teal Farm? It was their residents association who keep pushing for the changes to this route, yet don't seem to bother using it.

No, the 8 already takes 100 years to get from Sunderland to Stanley.

I don't even know why the 73 runs either, same as the 135/136...might as well withdraw them to.

You can say that about other routes though, having loads of buses in the area.... Sunderland Hospital is one example....