(16 Aug 2021, 7:57 pm)big mac wrote Exactly. You see all these people crawling out of the woodwork when they probably barely use the service that is being cut. A prime example recently is the furore over the 25 last year when it got rerouted away from the QE Hospital and people kicked off on social media. GNE compromised and introduced the 925, which has ended up being withdrawn due to low use. From the amount of people booting off on Facebook you'd have thought it would have been packed every journey.
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In fairness hospital links isn't probably the best thing to use there. People tend to only go to hospitals when they need to either for appointments or visiting someone. It'd be a bit weird to have bus loads of people going to a hospital every journey, the 925 was setup to fail.
That one weekly appointment could be enough to tempt someone to use the car though and then realise how much better it is and never use the bus again, hospital services have to be part of another route to succeed such as the 25 rather than going around estates like Harlow Green which is a detour and has no benefit of anyone in Birtley and even more so Lanchester (the route is long enough as it is).