(12 Oct 2022, 11:19 am)Andreos1 wrote
If I was living in say Penshaw and worked at Doxford Park, public transport isn't a viable or attractive alternative to walking, cycling or the car.
Chuck in places that are a similar distance, such as Grindon, Pennywell, Seaham, Fencehouses and residents are all in a similar position.
You're talking 2 or 3 buses in the wrong direction, the inevitable wait and a walk for the majority of them to get to work. The same home.
This is a key employment site. Not some backwater, 1980s industrial estate.
The fact they've had to invest more time and money in widening approaches to the site, again reinforces the need to improve public transport.
If having to change buses is what keeps you from using them then there was never any hope to start with. It’s not exactly a task to get the 60 then 39/A to doxford or for your penshaw example whichever bus into town and then the 39/A, X20 or X1 or even then like I said, bus to houghton and then bus to doxford.
changing buses is a given of bus travel unless you’re lucky enough for the one you need to stop outside your door. There’s plenty of services go there with an every 15 minute frequency bar the service changes.