(17 May 2016, 9:36 am)beefcake wrote Just had a couple more thoughts as to your suggestions last night. As your services 2&3 would be using the same buses, could there be the possibility of merging the 2 services into 1 cross town, therefore still keeping the 6 buses an hour from Throston - Seaton, with half of them serving the marina as you suggested? Also, if the routes were merged, rather than run down Duke Street, the bus could continue straight down Hart Lane, onto Middleton Road before serving the marina, continuing to town then onto Seaton.
Considering Stagecoach's preference for cross town routes, I'd say your suggestion is probably more likely. The only thing that inclined me to split them was if it was one through route it would involve the bus double backing on itself around Navigation point which gets hard to explain in maps, timetables etc. Suppose it's no more confusing than the 1 going both ways along Elizabeth Way as per now.