(12 Dec 2022, 10:54 pm)BusLoverMum wrote Most people catching the 209/210 just want to go to the town centre for their shopping and to catch up with the local gossip. There is a very good reason why these short distance but convoluted local services exist.
In fairness most of them are just subsidised services by the council serving places which have been abandoned by the big 3. In fact is there actually any which aren't, they must be in single digits now.
I do think longer services are better similar to what Arriva did in Northumbria ditching the likes of the Blyth Town services etc but only if they're the right route, not the X1. I do think the X6 doing one of the local services in the Peterlee maybe the 209/210 even if it's through tickets.
I believe it runs X6 -> 209 -> 201 -> 210 -> X6 anyway so it's not really changing anything.