(21 Jun 2023, 9:39 pm)F114TML wrote I don't think it is necessarily sad, considering the 3 (for example) is made up of the 2 (Town - Farringdon), 3 (Town - Plains Farm - Gilley Law) and 27 (Town - North Hylton Road - Hylton Castle), and was there really a need for three routes between Thorney Close, the Town and Fulwell/Dene Estate? Christ knows what a certain someone hellbent on diverting the 61 just cos would've made of that!
See I don't see the issue with those personally, there's a core group of services grouped together with similar numbers of the main section which branches out at the end to do different areas. It's a shame we don't have more of it imo for the Thornley Close services.
It's arguably better than the 2/2A/39/39A/39B/60/61 which serve the corridor through Ryhope and Grangetown. Now that's confusing which is just the same really.