(05 Jul 2022, 6:33 pm)F114TML wrote I got the 62 from Murton to Sunderland and it had a pretty decent load, guesstimate of 10-17 passengers throughout (quick silent headcount revealed 13 on board on arrival at Park Lane), most doing the same journey I did - felt busy as it was a Solo. The 61 I got back from Park Lane was much quieter (well, it wasn't because it was a StreetLite but you get what I mean)
A 56 left shortly after with all of 2 people on board, so presumably that's going to get heavily slashed and downgraded to minibuses
OK, that was a joke, but still failing to see why the 62 is being withdrawn - I've never seen an empty one, and I've always seen a fair few on it.
I do echo this and I realise anecdotal evidence of “xxx route” had a lot of passengers etc isn’t always the full story. But I have to admit that when I’ve seen buses around the East Durham area (Seaham, Murton, Peterlee, Easington etc.) the 62 seems to be doing very well, I was surprised that it gets as busy as it seemed to do. It’s the same with the 65 which was mentioned earlier too - Sunday buses with hardly any seats free etc.