(17 Sep 2021, 7:11 am)Storx wrote Personally I don't see the issue with the 24. There won't be many people going from Durham to Hartlepool throughout and unless the whole villages get on in Ludworth etc then there's no demand for a quicker service really. In a similar way there won't be many people going from Blackhall to Durham.
imo. it's more for serving.
Oakeside - Durham
Oakeside - Peterlee
Shotton Collery and all the villages inbetween service - Durham
Peterlee - Hartlepool
Shotton Collery and Durham have a quicker service on the 22 to Peterlee so it's only the 4 small villages Sherburn, Shadwell, Ludworth and Haswell and there's probably 5k between them (in other areas of the country they wouldn't have a service at all especially on evenings and Sundays).
You could bring that 25 back, but the 24 wouldn't be running in the evenings so that's the compromise and the estates of Peterlee, which there's more passengers anyway wouldn't have a direct service to Hartlepool.
Service 25 was a shit service from Arriva, I live at Oakerside area, it didn’t come round half the time, the bus did the fast 22 from Durham to Hartlepool before it started going via Peterlee, and changed to a 25 from Hartlepool to old shotton, the 25 was timed from Hartlepool to be in front of the 24 to relieve the congested normal 24, but the 22 used to be always late from Durham and in turn made the 25 late and behind the 24 to Peterlee then half the time the 25 was turned at Peterlee bus station and not taking passengers between bus station at Oakerside who ended up taking taxis, same thing when the GNE X7 started to do the loop south of Peterlee, used to get to Peterlee bus station late and got turned around because it came late at Sunderland from the X6, I think the x7 was just used to keep the X6 on time between Hartlepool and Sunderland
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(17 Sep 2021, 9:21 am)BusLoverMum wrote Thing is, the people on those estates have a one bus service to Hartlepool or Durham with the 24. I'm sure there would be just as much outrage if they had to catch a bus to the bus station, then change.
And, the way the 3 way Interworking works, the 24 needs to make up just under 90 minutes from end to end. When the 22 went to hartlepool, that was the one that served the estates.
At Least the local estate bus will be on time and not have to relay from a bus that came from a crammed city centre miles away when passengers just want to go to there local town centre
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