(24 Jul 2022, 10:06 pm)Storx wrote See I think your looking at the numbers too easily especially those 2 routes. It's not just really about the number of passengers on board and any point.

Just to pick the 56 as it's a good one for it.

You might only have 20 people on board leaving Newcastle, which seems low but in reality what's happening is.

20 Boarded Newcastle / 15 Left Old Durham Road, 20 Boarded Old Durham Road / 15 Left at Wrekenton, 10 Boarded at Wrekenton / 10 Left at Concord, 15 Boarded Concord / 20 Left Nissan, 5 Boarded Nissan / 10 Left Southwick, 20 Boarded Southwick

which is a total of 90 PAX over the journey.

Compare that to the say the 55. You might have 25 leaving Sunderland and seems to be busy. Catch 22 it picks up 4 people the whole next hour and it's dead by Peterlee.

Total pax for that journey is only 29 and it's loss making.

Most the services being cut are falling under the 55 trap whereas the services which aren't 10/21/27/56/97 and so on have multiple destinations.

I feel like the 27, 60 is also a good example, 27 Newcastle/Gateshead > Hebburn > Jarrow > South Sheilds

You have people going from Hebburn to Jarrow, Sheilds & Newcastle/Gateshead. There are many places on the route for people to get on get off. 

The 60, according to when bus times was tracking 60, you would have people coming from Parkside/Dawdon to Seaham, but also from Seaham to Deneside/Ryhope, then you have people from Parkside/Dawdon/Seaham/Deneside/Ryhope going all the way through. 

I think the 55 was just over-competed, it was an extra buses which was only used for people going to Easington/Peterlee from Sunderland or on the A690 but then you had the 62 which was more reliable and took roughly the same time