(18 Oct 2021, 12:41 pm)cbma06 wrote Could Arriva operate certain journeys on service 56 as 56A and run the 56A from Bowburn down past Amazon and continue down the road past Tursdale and then left at roundabout then along the road and enter Conforth to continue normal route with service 56, it would provide more links for Amazon workers, and yes it will miss out Coxhoe altogether, but Coxhoe  will still have journeys on the 56 plus the 57 and X1.

It shouldn't always be a case of robbing Peter to pay Paul in order to serve a new area. There's clearly a market in serving Amazon sites, as GNE have shown with their extension of the 4... no one has lost out with that; people have gained with later services.

(18 Oct 2021, 6:39 pm)Storx wrote Yeah, they could potentially work with DCC and try and nab the 112 subsidy aswell since everything would be pretty much covered by the 8A, 56, 86 and the new 7 (the only bit without a bus Metal Bridge -> Ferry Hill)

Why should DCC subsidise it? We live in a deregulated market, and it shouldn't be up to a local authority to provide a bus, just because the dominant commercial operator aren't willing to do anything different to what they've done for the last 30 years.

If every new development/employment site fell to the local authority to sort out transport from/to, we might as well change legislation and allow council-owned bus companies again.