(21 Sep 2024, 7:54 pm)Adrian wrote It's one of those routes that lost all of their services.
Early 2000s, you had 160, 161, 163 and 164, all doing various routes around that Houghton/Herrington stretch. 164 went via Penshaw/Hastings Hill, the rest via East Herrington and Durham Road. I went to college there around the time and you didn't half get some good variety in buses.
Of course, these days there's not a college there, so I'd doubt there'd be as much footfall as there once was.
You've got an absolute ton of new builds going up around there though.
I'd argue there's gonna be more footfall once they're up, than there has been for years.
Assuming the operators are proactive about it.
If they're not, there's just going to be a stream of X1s and 35s stuck in the inevitable traffic jams.