(04 Jan 2022, 11:04 am)Adrian wrote Follingsby Lane being upgraded is positive, but it still leaves you extremely limited in what you can do in terms of a bus service. 

I don't think any operator will be considering another Sunderland to Newcastle, via North Sunderland estates service anytime soon, which leaves you with extending the Stagecoach 4, GNE 35 or creating a variation to the 56. The latter might sound the more sensible of the three, but you'd then be removing half of the 56 runs from Washington and Springwell Village.

Surely the X24 and X34 would be the best routes to send along there. The former is quiet half the time anyway and the X34 if they promised an evening service I'm sure wouldn't be an issue for those in Marden for an extra few minutes. Would be useful for Stagecoach as they'd have a flow of passengers in the opposite directions during the peaks. (Out of Newcastle AM, in Newcastle PM) which are dead atm.

15 minute service for doing not an awful lot with Sunderland and parts of South Shields connected.