(10 Aug 2022, 2:38 pm)F114TML wrote Here's a thing I noticed while on the 61 this morning.I suppose it happens a lot, it happens with the 28 they just let them go and wait for a 21.
I was on a Violet Citaro, closely followed by a Blonde solo on the 60 (I later saw it on the X6). I noticed passengers would stick their hand out for the significantly busier 60, rather than the 61 which runs exactly the same route. There can't be that many people on a morning returning to Sunderland on a return ticket, surely (that's even assuming a return on that section is only valid on the 60)? Did they go for the 60 because the 60 is branded, despite it being an off-brand bus? Are they passing the Citaro because they don't like them for one reason or another?
It seemed very odd.
And wouldn't you pick the 60 over the 61 it is more often 5ph over 2ph. THe 61 should not be doing the same route from Seaton to Sunderland, the 60 should move upto every 10 mins and the 61 should be extended via Avenue and Station Road then Moorside, Farringdon, A690 Sunderland.
There has been no need for the 61 to follow the same route as the 60 for ages.