(25 Jun 2021, 8:43 pm)Micheal Aaron wrote It's okay. It will look better when it's out on the road. At least there's a better journey to Washington/Sunderland now

It's literally the same service, but with a stupid name and a second downgrade of vehicles in six years...

(26 Jun 2021, 10:53 am)Big O wrote The 2/2A seem to be quite frequent, are they that well used I don’t remember seeing many full when I used to drive in Sunderland?

I use the 2A frequently and I'd say there's two sets of passengers. Those travelling Penshaw to the Galleries, as the 4 only serves the bottom end rather than Barnwell etc, and then it tends to pick up again along Chester Road into Sunderland.