(07 Jan 2014, 4:36 pm)Greg in Weardale wrote Yes, the 27X is far less use than it could be, especially not using Gateshead Interchange - it seems to me that GNE put on a service in response to local requests, then make as useless as they can so people won't use it, then they can say at least they tried, rather than designing a good service which passengers will want to use. The X3 has been cut back time after time, not even mentioned in the last consultation, and its probably only been saved to satisfy me and a few others who added on the form that we wanted it to continue, but made virtually useless. The X3 loadings justified at least an hourly service, certainly more so than the X36, but then that was only changed as they wanted to cancel the 36/36A. So the X3 had to go, but to pacify those who saw through their heavily weighted consultation questions and called for it to be retained, they put on this idiotic new timetable.
And why only to Monkwearmouth, half a mile from the city centre, when the buses will run there empty??? Insane! (and I'm whingeing about it both because it's a deranged timetable and I use the X3)
You use the X3 from Sunderland to Newcastle? - Why not use the X36?