(18 May 2022, 5:00 pm)cbma06 wrote Park lane interchange is a shambles, it’s not fit for a bus interchange, needs knocking down or blown up , to cold and windy, you would think the person who designed it didn’t live on the windy cold coastline and then the pathetic excuse of the council who approved it, stagecoach stopped using it as it costed more time for the buses to divert in and out and the cost per bus each day to use it, should knock down Blandford street, pull down between holmside and Brougham street and a build a better bus station with bricks and not glassI agree, I think Sunderland needs a new massive interchange, for Stagecoach, Arriva & GNE to all use together .
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And it would be close to the train station aswell. You could make a bus gate between Park lane & that bus station aswell to only add a few minutes to journey times. And Park Lane can just become something else. Its like a bloody wind tunnel
(18 May 2022, 5:05 pm)Storx wrote Aye I understand that but does that really happen though in theory when you've got the 25, 28, 29 and 51 bouncing all over it at numerous points which are all really struggling and now were at the case where one road has a really good service but Ouston, Kibblesworth, Portobello, Langley Park etc don't have a bus service at all now to Newcastle because of the 21 pretty much.You could use the example of the 61 & 60.
https://images.nctx.co.uk/2022-02/Nottin...b%2022.pdf - There's a few good examples there in Nottingham where it happens and it seems sensible to me with blocks of numbers and the core corridor in this case Durham Road having a good service then when they go further out they start to split up and serve everywhere. It means the profits coming from the 21 can top up the less profitable end bits rather than those services running all the way to Newcastle / Gateshead duplicating the 21 around the world attempting to create links which don't exist.
Where ones goes the current route from Ryhope, however one could do the way of the diversion (Sunderland Marathon) its worth a try and basically adds nothing to journey times.