(27 Jun 2022, 5:05 pm)Washingtonian wrote Yeah I had thought about this for my suggestion. I doubt there are many passengers who actually travel the whole route from Silksworth to Washington Galleries, so your suggestion for the 42/63 may be better for that section.
Couldn't you possibly create some form of Sunderland loop service and terminate all your 2's and 3's at Sunderland.
The loop consisting of the 2/2A from Sunderland to Silksworth then the 33 redirected via Barnes Park, The Royal and Chester Road into Sunderland. You'd open loads of new links to the hospital without going round the world and would give Tunstall effectively a more frequent service to Sunderland going either way and open lots of connections to Sainsbury's at Silksworth.
There's already the 13 doing the 33 route and BSIP blah blah blah.