(24 May 2023, 9:45 pm)solsburian wrote 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.

Ha I won't be on the bus for awhile I'll be back to by bus to the Metro then change, mind I won't rant too much about the fact the Metro was late tonight and missed the 57A which was early (just typical) and walked back from Shiremoor.

Mind I still beat the 20:15 X7 which was 20 minutes late (reason I went that way in the first place) so wasn't all bad ironically the bus that you were on which never caught up

Yeah totally agreed though, or at least build proper infrastructure before building tonnes of houses in an area with serious traffic problems in the first place. Sandy Lane badly needs bypassed by the dual carriageway that was planned years ago but never happened. It doesn't help that Moor Farm is a car park lately either mind. Don't know what's happened there but it's always back to the Backworth junction lately and the traffic through Seghill and Delaval is getting worse.

Whole network is a mess, quicker the Blyth and Tyne railway opens the better as I'll be using pretty much all the time tbh, even known it involves a 15 minute walk.