(07 Dec 2024, 4:59 pm)ALavery wrote I mean it’s awful really, the reason why stagecoaches cross city routes work is because they stay in the town. You wouldn’t see a bus from say south shields to sunderland going through all the estates on the way or taking big detours. People coming from east durham want to be in the town and aren’t going to want to spend an extra ten minutes taking a mystery tour through ryhope. Those routes should be part of local links connecting one part of sunderland to another. Main connecting routes out of sunderland should be going down main roads, like for example the 61 doing the 61A route and connecting at maybe grangetown. That way journey times aren’t extended ridiculously and people are getting to where they need to go. Having those local routes means the same too. I give it until the march changes for these to go bust.
Forgive me if I have miss read this but are you saying all stagecoach services go direct from on town/city centre to another. The example you give of south shields to Sunderland....... I got the E1 from shields to Sunderland expecting it to go along the sea front all the way..... it would have been quicker getting the metro to pelaw, having a pint in the pelaw inn, putting my washing in the washer at my penthouse and then getting metro from pelaw to Sunderland!!! It went all over the shop