(11 Aug 2020, 7:37 pm)Storx wrote 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).Dead mileage at the start and end of the day isn't the huge problem it's made out to be to be honest. Yes it's not ideal but equally running drivers out from depot to somewhere 5-10 miles away to change over all costs money too. At Arriva Stockton we had several 45 min dead runs to Easington, or for example 30 mins up the road to Brotton, Peterlee, etc. It's honestly not a huge problem.
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.
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