(10 Jun 2022, 12:40 am)Drifter60 wrote Looking at the 5/26 I do wonder if the changes could mean they’d both work independently.
Currently the 5 is too tight with a journey til just under an hour, save a few minutes and then it might be doable as two hour round trip - PVR of 4.
The 26 would then take longer but it currently takes around 1hr 5 at the moment. So if the 26 take part of the 5 route, it may end up working out as a 2hr30min round trip - PVR 5.
Although I concur, interworking the new 24 with the 5/26 might be what’s seen at GNE towers as the logical option and would certainly explain the split of the current 20. However I’m not sure an every 15 minute service really needs to interwork to be viable. The 24 I guess would be a PVR of 5. Would the 24,26,5 interworking reduce those PVR?
Yeah that's what I was thinking aswell possibly from Percy Main. I'm surprised they're keeping that depot open tbh as the 309/310/311 and 1 could easily be ran from Riverside then what's left the 19 and 41/41A.
Tbh the 20/24 split could be for operating reasons. It's such a long route and if people aren't using the whole route why keep it together. I'm not sure people in South Shields appreciate being late because it was stuck in Durham and vice versa. There's a lot of bottlenecks along the route which can delay it especially on the 20 side.