(20 Oct 2013, 11:45 am)CatsFast101 wrote I'm sorry but I don't buy all this stuff about cross city services. The 9 mangaes reliability okay and it is goes from North Shields-Sunderland and what about things like the X3/X36 that go through a two city centres and a busy stretch at Heworth Metro. So I don't get really how a service going through the 26 journey would struggle that much. I mean reliability of things like 20/56 aren't too bad, yes there is the occasionally problem but I don't see how the proposed 26 would be that adversely affected.
When GNE put on service 29/39 it never worked out as there was delays on the service and the buses were getting bunched up, that's why GNE had to split the service up, even by GNE admitted that running those service from north side to south side and vice versa was causing the service reliability issues, same when the 26 from Pennywell was extended from City Centre to heworth didn't work out and that service had to be split due to reliability issues between the north and south divide.