(04 Mar 2021, 3:21 pm)streetdeckfan wrote For the journey that I do, if I were to take the car it would take 40 minutes (you can do it in about 30 minutes if you need to), on the bus it takes over 2 hours! (including connections). 
I personally don't mind the journey because like I've said before, for an hour and a half of that time I'm on a bus with tables so I can get some work done, so for me it actually works out about the same as if I'd sat at home and did the work then took the car, except at a considerably lower cost.
But for people who aren't me it probably won't make sense! 

Particularly if they've got their kids in tow and are off on a day out
However for those who are commuting, it's not the sort of thing you can do squashed on a streetlite travelling through Lumley - before packing it all up for 20mins and then getting it back out for another 20mins on the X21.