(17 Aug 2017, 5:20 pm)S813 FVK wrote I still don't quite understand the argument made. Yes the direct bus is being taken away, but if the people affected can manage the change Monday - Saturday daytimes, i see no reason why they can't manage on a Sunday either.
That's the thing. During the working week when shifts are prescribed, the X5 links Doxford Park to other services, such as the 20.
When the X5 ends for the day, the 20 fills that particular void.
Despite most people being in wowork the X5 whizzes through the business park - very rarely stopping. It has very little need to stop if people are already busy doing whatever they do within their workplaces, on that prescribed shift.
If there was a time bus stops and passenger embarkations/disembarkations were analysed and changes made, surely it would be to the daytime X5 service around Doxford Park?
I imagine there will be a similar number of people utilising stops on the X5 during the day as there will be with the 20 on a Sunday.
It goes without saying, things are different during peaks.
Rather than debate whether or not the service should/shouldnt go through Doxford Park, it should be whether or not the service should do it prior to and immediately a shift has finished.