(26 Jan 2022, 9:50 pm)stagecoachbusdepot wrote I dunno I don't really see SNE (and dont know enough about Arriva ops to comment) being much better on that front to be honest. SNE 'cross city' routes in Sunderland and Newcastle only work if you happen to want to go from e.g. Silksworth to Doxy or or the Sunderland North Estates. You still need to change to get to plenty of places as they binned off all of their more 'community serving' linking up routes over the last couple of decades (likes of 5, 6, 7, 14, 17, 18/19, 21 etc in Sunderland and 2, 3, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 19, 20 etc in Newcastle). Hub and spoke definite demotivator for public transport usage overall; convenient as it may be for the operators.I hope you are not blaming SNE for the disappearance of the Newcastle routes you list. Most of those hardly made it to the advent of Busways, never mind SNE !
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