(11 Aug 2020, 12:21 pm)Youngymmv wrote I don’t think it’s much of a difference having the E’s run from Sunderland. I still think the X34 being ran from there was strange given the dead mileage from the depot to route start/end. Would have been better based at Newcastle or South Shields bit that just my opinion.
Kind regards
Newcastle would be worse as the buses are at the wrong side. In the mornings, people generally travel from Marden to Newcastle whereas the evenings is the other way round. So you'd have dead milage from Newcastle to Marden (even if the bus services are running for passengers as they'd be dead).
The Killingworth services are quite bad for it, you quite often see buses running empty from Killingworth along Sandy Lane and the A1 even known the routes pass the depot but what's the point running them if no-one gets on.