(09 Sep 2021, 2:36 pm)Drifter60 wrote You mean Tunstall Road? I suppose they have, but stagecoach operate along there too. Turning a bit into a service suggestions thread, but I wonder if they could withdraw the 38 entirely? Have the normal 39 to go around Tunstall Bank Estate, the 2A serving Leechmere Asda half hourly, the 2 on its current route half hourly and send the 61 every 20 minutes up Tunstall Road (to keep a service in that area) and have it rejoin the current 61 route to Murton at The Old B&Q. The current 61 has a lot of layover and it fills some of it with a loop of the city Centre, you could drop that to compensate a few extra minute it may take to go along Tunstall Road. The 61 could perhaps even do the docks runs too or have the 33 extended around the docks.
I know this is dragging off but wonder if a new Sunderland 'loop' service to replace a few routes could work either.
Something like this for the Route 1 either every 30 minutes - https://www.google.com/maps/dir/54.90404...aa!1m0!3e0
Then a second loop the Route 2 doing this also every 30 minutes - https://www.google.com/maps/dir/54.90404...aa!1m0!3e0
Then you get arid of the 2 South of Sunderland, the 33 and 38 altogether. You could send the 62 along Tunstall Road using it's massive layover in Sunderland, send the 39A direct to Doxford Park again to get arid of the hopeless 12 / 18 timetable and have a clean 15 minutes service throughout. The docks I'm not too sure, 2 maybe.
Creates a few more links, ie Silksworth to the hospital not around the world, the 33 is every 15 minutes instead of 20 minutes. Ryhope and Chester Road get a bus to Sainsbury's and The Range. Tunstall gets a bus to Seaham and Peterlee. Links to Barnes Park. Easily be doable in an hour with a PVR of 8 which is no increase (5x 2/2A, 1x 38, 2x 33)