I fully agree with that Dan. It seems a shame that Nexus are possibly going to cut other vital links when it appears in the example above , there were 5 Scholars services from the same school operating to very similar destinations, 2 to West Boldon, 2 to Boldon Asda and 1 to Boldon asda and then Fellgate on top of this there was the Nexus GCT operated 558 and the Stagecoach commercial 30 operating to Boldon Asda also . If Nexus were to look at those surely the 5 Scholars could be amended to possibly 2 or 3 services still allowing the commercial services to breathe.

I'm not saying that Scholars services aren't vital by no means, and I'm also not saying put all school kids onto commercial services either, but I do think Nexus need to look at where they are wasting money on duplicate services running empty., such as rhe 803