(24 May 2023, 8:57 pm)Storx wrote Wasn't aware of that one, one to avoid. Quite often around there at rush hour mind.


The whole of Sandy Lane is a mess, I really don't understand why they didn't put a bus gate from the Great Lime road, it literally would solve most the issues with buses there. Not to mention it's done nothing, in fact it's made it worse unbelievably.

Haddricks Mill, is a nightmare but to be fair the Coast Road isn't much better as it's a car park from Sandyford all the way through to Corner House on a bad day, used to live in Heaton for a bit and it could take 15 - 20 minutes there aswell.

I saw your bus btw, I really don't understand why it ran as 7601 was 2 minutes behind you with no-one on. Should've dead ran it and got it back on time. Seems like it overtook it at some point aswell, the same happened with the X8's aswell.

Very bad night mind, your bus must be up there with the biggest delay I've ever seen - well it is without any form of accident or weather incident. 58 minutes late takes a beating.

If you ever see me on the bus I am look grumpy but I am just introverted 

It is barmy that they will not run something light to try to restore the service, but at the moment Arriva don't seem to have any form of coherent management or decision making.

I suppose the white elephant of many of the routes identified here is poor road infrastructure, and places along the routes that have rail corridors (or mothballed lines) where a station or two could help take the strain. Killingworth comes to mind with all of the housing developments right next to the ECML.