(17 Aug 2017, 10:50 am)Dan wrote This is a mistake - I think it's due to be corrected today or tomorrow.
The existing weekday 15:55 8A service is revised to operate 1-2 minutes later throughout, and instead runs as an 8 service via Hylton Retail Park (arriving at 17:10), to compensate for the withdrawal of the existing short 17:11 trip (associated with the loss of Misc. Works contracts).
Ah right, good, i thought it was daft, shame the 8 and 36 still arrive within 5 minutes of each other throughout the day at Hylton Retail Park, can't be helped at the min due to interworking (8 and 78) and providing a service every 15 minutes on the 35/36 (on certain parts of the route), any chance that could ever change, so it's spread out so it provides a service every 15 minutes?
Then after 6, 18:11 for the 8 and then nothing until 18:37, complete nightmare.
I also thought with changes to the 35, it would be on a separate timetable to the 36.
(16 Aug 2017, 2:04 pm)Malarkey wrote I have to say the changes around Doxford International on a Sunday are shocking, going from having a bus every 20 minutes in the form of the 20, to having one an hour in the revised X5.
Quite a lot of people who I talk to at work travel from South Shields & Durham to which the 20 provides direct link to Doxford International on a Sunday, from the 3rd September they will have either get the Bus to Herrington Board Inn and walk from there which takes around 20 Minutes for where we are on business park, or face changing in Sunderland or Houghton on to the X5. Once again these service changes from Go North East causes an inconvenience to those who rely on the services in there current form to get from A to B, and this example in particular is most definitely a loss of service.
Just think they have the half hourly 39 too, on a Sunday, so there's still still 2 services going to Doxford International.