(08 Sep 2020, 5:55 pm)Storx wrote Consett is the worst for that pretty much every service there is gold / yellow (Venture is very close to gold). The X Lines there, in a way, has been overdone a bit too much for my liking as it's just the 'normal' bus livery pretty much. Arriva done the same at Blyth where it's either minibus or Max so the Max livery isn't a premium service - it's just a normal bus and anything non Max is just old. I understand the reasons behind X-Lines though.The issue is, as much as they'd like it to be, Consett isn't exactly somewhere you want to go (no offence to people from Consett, but I ain't wrong). It's somewhere you commute from. And in that regard, I think only having Xlines and Venture isn't a bad thing. You're either going to be travelling very locally, and use Venture, or quite far away, and use Xlines.
Imo, they should have had one, maybe 2 Xlines routes from Consett to Newcastle, but with having literally every service Xlines, they're trying to have too much of a good thing, and in the short term it may work, but soon enough people are going to realise it's essentially the same service, taking the same route it always did, it's just going to become a flop like Sapphire and Max.
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