(12 Apr 2024, 5:08 pm)GrahamD83 wrote Just been looking at the 2 / 2A route and wondering would it make more sense if this route was a circular service? It could continue from Silksworth to Washington via East Herrington and Shiney Row, and maybe call at Doxford business park.
The 42 (and later the X90) covered this route for a number of years in the 1990s/2000s.
Apologies if this has been suggested before.
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Not sure it would really be possible, personally I'd split the 2 at Sunderland, it has no real benefit of doing a horseshoe in Sunderland. Most of the route is now either covered by the 39 to Washington.
With the split, I'd say have the following services each every 30 minutes working with Nexus and the BSIP to up the two extensions to every 30 minutes which would do what you're wanting pretty much anyway.
The routes being, these A's and B's are confusing currently as an understatement:
2/39: Pennywell -> Silksworth -> 36
2A: Sunderland -> Silksworth -> 37
39A/39B: Sunderland -> Houghton Le Spring via 39A Route -> 38
39: Sunderland -> Washington -> 39