(22 Jan 2021, 12:23 pm)logidoodah wrote If you could create any more routes/change others to be xlines what would they be?
Not really the right place, but the only real missing link is Sunderland to Newcastle and in the future once the IAMP is complete I do believe there would be scope for some service on the lines of:
Newcastle -> Gateshead -> Non Stop -> Heworth -> Wardley (Felling Bypass), Lingley Lane, Follingsby Park (Amazon), Follingsby Lane (Non Stop), IAMP / Nissan then
56 Route to Castletown Way, Northern Spire Bridge, A1231 into Sunderland.
or Downey Lane, then 9 Route to Sunderland potentially limited stop along Newcastle Road. (Not sure which of those 2 would have more passengers).
It gives a quicker service to those in North Sunderland competing against the Stagecoach services, quicker links from Wardley and Lingley Lane into Newcastle (57 nearly takes an hour) and new links to Amazon, IAMP and Nissan which are major employment sites and Amazon doesn't have a bus at all.