(12 Oct 2022, 7:58 pm)ALavery wrote Ah yes, because an interchange or town/city centre is an obscure place. Got it.
If you drove the 39 route it would take about half an hour also. So with that conclusion I’m assuming you want a direct bus from penshaw to doxford park picking up no one but you? Buses have routes for a reason, at the end of the day you’d still get there. It’s literally not a difficult job to change bus.
Ah, so you're wanting people to walk 10mins, sit on the 2 or 78 for another 20 (heading in the total opposite direction), hang around for a change of bus and then head back out. To then walk another 5mins to get to EE?
Then do the same in reverse on a night and sort the kids out both before and afterwards.
Got it.
It might not be a difficult, but it's certainly not attractive is it?
I mean, yeah, having a bus for myself would be pretty nice. But I would just drive the car instead, be in the car for 5mins and add to the traffic, that's holding the buses up.
The same sort of traffic, full of people that don't have a viable, public transport alternative.
And they wonder why passenger numbers keep on falling? Archaic, clueless views that fail to take in to account the reality of missed opportunities whilst holding on to the dream that things have to stay as they have done forever. Cos its always been like that.
I mean, it...
...would open new direct links to newcastle instead of having to get one bus to get on another then get on the metro and then another bus etc
Isn't that what you wanted just the other week with multiple variations of the X1?