(12 Feb 2024, 5:31 pm)Storx wrote Not surprised to see the X7 and X8 on there, the timetable is an absolute shambles still around this time pretty much every night, especially Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.
I know it'll remove the new bus stops near Miller and Carter but they really need to pull them off the A189 / Killingworth Way and avoid Sandy Lane Roundabouts. It's much quicker to go via Killingworth nowadays and demand changes for them to re serve it (ie. bus gate off Great Lime Road).
No doubt they'll change the times by 2 minutes or something again which won't do the bot of difference.
Looking at tracking, they seem to get stuck in the section between the Miller and Carter roundabout and the Sandy Lane roundabout in the PM peak for some time. Could the road past Dobbies not have been converted into a bus gate at the northern end (rather than totally closing off access to the roundabout) with traffic signals? They'd only need to change to green 4x per hour, and only for a few seconds at most, so would have minimal impact on the traffic flow from the rest of the roundabout.