(27 Jul 2022, 10:55 pm)DeltaMan wrote But if live in Birtley, and I want to go straight home I am going to use the car. I don't want to travel through the rest of Washington, purely because it works best for the bus operator to run that way in order to provide a service. That's precisely the thing you've accused operators of doing.Which way would the bus go from Crowther to Portmeads and Birtley via BAE/Rolls Royce?
Unless it's going to do some sort of loop of Harraton and Rickleton (we've clarified Barmston and Biddick are the two other places the Crowther back shift workers are at, so it doesn't really need to do that), it's going to get to Portmeads and Birtley pretty quickly.
Now granted the worker living in Portmeads may be quicker by heading over that footbridge near the services, but for the other workers - it's a no brainer.