From my limited experiences of the 9, from the Sunderland end of the route, most of the passengers seem to get off at Boldon Asda and a few may carry on towards Jarrow, whenever the bus has reached Jarrow Bus Station most of the passengers seem to depart the bus and most of the passengers who travel to North Shields board/alight at Jarrow Bus Station or some of the stops before that, seems like only a few will go the whole or nearly full route from my experiences at least, only time I've really seen people carry onto towards Sunderland is a weekday peak time run from North Shields and even then most of the punters got off long before Sunderland.
I agree that the current set up for the 9 timetable is silly but I couldn't help but think that when it ran on a 15 minute frequency between Sunderland and Jarrow that it seemed somewhat overkill in terms of demand, you would often get the top deck of a Vyking all to yourself the whole way to Jarrow (or at least I would).
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