(30 Aug 2021, 9:30 am)Keeiajs wrote No doubt Park lane is a awfully designed bus station. It needs to be changed/knocked down. And Debenhams have nove shut, know that down with the carpark make a nicer bus station similar to South Sheilds where all services can go. Simplier & Nicer as Park Lane as you say is bloody freezing.Sunderland is very good example of where you are disenestivised for even thinking of using a bus if you want to visit the city centre. If you park at the multi story you walk undercover a few meters and you are in the centre. Get the bus and the main facility is 1/4 of a mile away, uncoverd to the elements and seagull excrement.
Car users can travel where and when they want, buses by there very nature have a timetable, so aren't as flexible. So make car users walk further when accessing these popular facilities. No doubt the usual motor opinion formers would say this is a "war on motorists" though
I think GNE would be better served showing parts of Sunderland on its network map they don't serve with the Stagecoach routes with an add for the Day Rover or Smartzone, at least that way they may get some additional revenue if they buy it from GNE! That would cost nothing to do