(16 Aug 2024, 3:06 pm)deanmachine wrote To be honest, I think they should have a specific open top service in the summer, Sunderland to Shields but sticking entirely to the coast road the entire way. It'd take some pressure off the E buses as well as not having to experience the joys of Horsley Hill or Laygate on an open top bus.
This is what happens when stagecoach buys busways out and streamline and cut services to the bone to please the shareholders , profit before passengers safety and well being, should of kept double deckers on the E services, stagecoach are not going to pay the use of open top buses and drivers wages on top of normal services that are running plus wages, roker and harbour view residents/passengers have been hit hard with only the E1 service with the cancelled 18/19 service in the area, passengers are lucky to get a seat or a standing space on the full capacity E1 from shields