(25 Aug 2022, 9:56 pm)Acky81 wrote what an absolute joke the 39 routes are at the moment. They don’t need to go to houghton or Washington. The routes are far too long now.See really the 39 should be a loop.
for Washington get the 2 2A 8 or 56 from Sunderland
for houghton use 20 20a 35 or 35a
However the Washington part was part of the Nexus contracted service 37 which was replaced with the 39B, why they didn’t just have the 39 extend to Washington instead of bringing in the 39B I don't know.
And the Houghton addition was so that there would still be a service to Houghton from Doxford for connections to the 20/35/X1/4 outside of peak times. And to Sunderland on the 39's, and the X20 at peaks.