(12 Sep 2022, 5:35 pm)Storx wrote Why would you want to do that Sheriff Hill is the busiest part of the route and your taking more buses away from the area.Really the X36 was a failure because of the location it was in, clearly there is demand with the X24 and that misses out basically everything apart from Sunderland, Royal Hospital and Newcastle.
There's no demand for a North Sunderland to Newcastle express service hence there's been more variations of X36's etc that have all failed.
and anyone bar people on this forum travelling from Gateshead, Newcastle etc going to Sunderland would use the Metro.
If you want an express Concord services you'd be better at looking at doing something with the 4 and X1 and splitting it up to service more areas similar to the X8, X9, X10 and X11 in Cramlington and get shot of the Washington local services in the process.
I think an X56 would work but I feel like starting it in sunderland would bad, as no one really wants to connect, if you start it at Ryhope or Seaham you've got customers who hate changing buses.
With the current state of the metro I would prefer the 1 hour, 20 mins on the 56 than 40 mins on the metro.