(16 Mar 2024, 9:27 pm)Ambassador wrote The X21 hugely helps getting people to the Fwll during the peak as the 21 is so unreliable, more so with Durham bound journeys.
If the 21 was properly managed with a reliable fleet there’d be no need for X21 to serve low fell but I don’t see that happening
imo the 21 should be curtailed at CLS, with an extra X21 running instead which could then interwork with the 6 at the Southern end of the route which is an mess (timetabled to follow each other). Most people would have a stop to Durham anyway because of the limited stop nature of the X12 serving most places.
Also throw an extra bus into the X21 aswell and give an extra 5 minutes per bus as the 4 minute layover for the length of the route is stupid, as an understatement.