(16 May 2022, 8:00 pm)F114TML wrote Had a thought about if the Peterlee network could be changed for the better (since there's a few on here think it's at risk). I've numbered the new routes in the 86-89 series so hopefully the marketing/branding people can have a field day with the 80s puns.
62A and 201:
• Merged to form a new half hourly route 88.
• Additional fast journeys between Easington and Bracken Hill provided on route X88 in the peak.
87:
• New route from Horden Station to Wingate, via Town Centre and Shotton Colliery.
89:
• New route between Horden Station and Shotton Hall via Thorntree Gill, Town Centre and Oakerisde, replacing part of routes 209 and 210.
206:
• Renumbered to 86.
• Extended to Horden Station, via Crawford Avenue and Horden Hall.
209 and 210:
• Withdrawn, and replaced by other routes.
Services 86 and 89 interwork. The 87 is timed to co-incide with the trains.
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I understand what your doing here but working with the current operators (I believe they're subsidised anyway) I'd go the opposite route.
With the black route being an extension of the Arriva X21/X22.
The purple route being an extension of the GNE X6
Then a third town service ran by a Mellor going around all the estates than can't fit anything bigger than a Solo.
(Holme Hill would have to walk to the main road)
Town services never work as no-one wants to go to Peterlee at least with these changes your opening new routes like Blackhall to Seaham and Easington to Sedgefield, Darlington and beyond. Your 89 is already covered by the 24 and the 87 is literally the X21/X22 anyway.
