(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.

I recently rode the 73 from Sunderland Park Lane to Concord Bus Station and it only picked up a few passengers over the whole journey. When it left Concord as the 37 it picked up no passengers and only had a few on when I saw it again at Washington Galleries.