(12 Nov 2021, 12:48 pm)Storx wrote The 71 will be getting subsidised mainly for the Seaham to Houghton side. It's the only bus route through Seaton and the local estates in Seaham. Durham Council won't be interesting in funding a bus only between Chester Le Street and Houghton which can easily be done with a change onto the 4 at numerous places or extensions to Nexus services that benefit only Sunderland.
The rest of the route isn't their business and does nothing to benefit them.
Yea, I know that the section between Houghton and Seaham is secured, it was when northern dropped the 735 between Houghton and Seaham, I didn’t say for DCC to fund the Chester to Houghton section but could be numbered in the 700 sequence going off the Chester local services, if one of the 65 half hourly service could be diverted as a 66 which would provide new links and the service might potentially get income, so the big cats can purchase another box of Cuban cigars while playing monopoly with bus services
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