(22 May 2022, 6:35 pm)F114TML wrote Serving more areas is better, so why was the 202 withdrawn from Westlea and Northlea in 2013, with those areas passing to the 265, which lost those areas after a whole 10 months? Westlea was left with a council bus that ran 4 or 5 times a day and has been suspended since the first lockdown, and Northlea got the 238 (now 71)
Also, the 62A is what serves all the estates, the 62 just passes through. It's probably just to keep a 30-min frequency in that area, otherwise the diversion is pretty pointless, meanwhile if I was still at college, I'd be facing an extra 20 minutes on my journey (10 min extra on the bus, 10 min walking because it no longer stops outside the college), or having to either buy a day ticket, or try to use Arriva.
About the 202 , you better asking DCC or GNE, I think it was when GNE took them on commercially , probably at least there was still a service going through westlea and northlea , if you were on about east Durham college , its practically walking distance from the bus station, you can’t have it both ways as bus services are run by profit and not passenger needs to be closer to there destination, just hope DCC secure the services again and Arriva gets the locals as what was intended to happen until GNE was going to lose the contracts to Arriva
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