(17 Jan 2014, 7:15 am)CatsFast101 wrote But I don't think GNE are really that bothered, does the eye infirmary even attract that many people?
That's my point. Clearly the market on Ryhope Rd has greater potential or has a good patronage to justify so many buses per hour.
It's a diversion which would increase the journey time by approximately 2 minutes, so it could quite easily be done in the 9 minute layover it has (or whatever figures I quoted last night).
To me, the fact that GNE haven't tried anything out via the Eye Infirmary suggests that they don't think the potential market is great enough, or is greater on Ryhope Rd. Stagecoach have a solid 15m frequency in both directions (equivalent to a 7.5m frequency as journey times won't be massively different given the circular structure of the service), and the market - however small or large it is - would probably use Stagecoach's long established service over GNE's.