(30 Jan 2019, 9:51 pm)Michael wrote Could do, they did that with the 9, 61 and parts of the 88/88A, that seems to be working really well.

They need more cross city services like Sunderland haha

Combine with the 310 so it could receive upgraded buses sometimes if they're both combined, interwork with 11 at whitley and extend 97A to the metro. The 310 dosent even go into proper cobalt and basically skims the bottom of it. So they could make it into
97/310->12(N.Shields to Metro)
97A->12A (Metro to Town)
X97->12X (Same route as now)