(24 Jul 2022, 5:37 pm)stagecoachbusdepot wrote Where's the Metro on the A690 like? Anyone who lives west of the University station on Durham Road would have to travel in the wrong direction to a Metro station which can make the Metro a far less appealing option than you assume. Arguably Chester Road is slightly better than Durham Road in terms of links to Metro stations but still far from convenient.By the way I read the way it was posted I assumed the (A690 / A183) meant run non-stop along it express rather than stopping along it even then is there that much demand for it. Does that many people actually travel from Sunderland to Newcastle to warrant express services along every road. Arguably the best area for one is North Sunderland as they'd have to travel backwards or travel on the extremely slow 56 and it's failed twice now I believe.
imo if they really wanted to do an Newcastle service from Sunderland then I'd do these changes and give parts of Washington a direct to Newcastle aswell which they don't have either. It also fixed the Doxford Park link to Sunderland with GNE.
2 - Full 2 doing 2A route in Penshaw (Every 30 Minutes)
2A - 2A Sunderland to Silksworth only, Washington section replaced by X2 (Every 30 Minutes)
X2 - https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Newcastl...e9!1m0!3e0 - Every 30 Minutes
33 - Replaced by X2
39/39A - No Changes
39B - Terminate at Doxford Park
2/78 - Work together to provide a 15 minute service from Shiney Row to Sunderland via Chester Road