(06 Dec 2020, 9:53 pm)Storx wrote tbf is there any bus route in the whole North East you'd travel using the bus route it takes in a car, I can't think of any. Certainly none of the X Lines routes you'd use the route they use to get from A to B and I wouldn't expect them to either.
btw going through Medomsley is the quickest way through to the Swalwell rather than via Shotley Bridge and whoever said the X45/X46 is the way you'd drive you wouldn't you'd go through Sunniside and Dipton, it's much quicker.
To be fair, the X21 does go basically the same way we go in the car.
Obviously there are a few little differences like missing out Spennymoor and Chester le Street because it's faster going a long the bypass, and we'd continue up the A1 instead of going through Low Fell because the traffic is a nightmare and you always get caught behind a bus! But the general route is basically the same.
We do sometimes use the A1 but it either means going past Amazon where the traffic is always bad, or going miles out the way to save a few minutes.