(15 Jan 2022, 12:59 pm)OrangeArrow49 wrote The 20 could follow the 516 route to Marsden but then go right along Coast Road passing Whitburn to Sunderland if GNE wanted to run a bus around South Shields. Good to have a Shields to Sunderland bus service (this will likely be withdrawn when the Metro is extended to link Shields and Sunderland).
Even if the Metro is extended from South Shields to Sunderland like they've been hinting, it won't be faster than the 20 currently is, not unless they plan on gong through Harton underground.