(07 Dec 2024, 5:52 pm)Storx wrote Can't disagree to be honest, they remind me of the X7/X8 changes which happened, also under Feetham, in SE Northumberland which seen them go through Gosforth or via the Freeman which had very very negative reviews. They didn't last long until that was reversed and they lost customers for certain, as I was one of them at the time where I moved to getting a lift to the Metro instead which meant I had an extra hour in bed going to, I think, college at the time.
Personally I'd just have the 60/61/62 running direct with the 63 doing all the crap instead. People from Silksworth don't need a quick bus as they've got the 33 so it doesn't matter about that going around the world really.
Exactly my thoughts, the 63 loop someone mentioned earlier would be a much better fit, linking local people to their local area and linking people out of the area to a different one. This might seem like the revolutionary change that people have been wanting with buses serving places more easily and what not but all it is is an inconvenience to those people who use those services as they are now for what they’re for. Realistically the 61 should be left alone, with new routes being made for those local links, especially the cross city ones.
Another thing I want to add is the fact most of these buses are being advertised as turn up and go but as soon as that bus turns to its own route, some services will be up to one bus an hour. The 61 being kept at half hourly is ridiculous, should be at least every 15 minutes with one every half an hour continuing to peterlee.
(07 Dec 2024, 7:06 pm)Rob44 wrote 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
Not necessarily direct but they still go down main roads, they go through estates but aren’t trundling off of main roads into those estates and taking detours that delay peoples journeys. The south sunderland changes are taking buses connecting people from out of sunderland off of main roads, into estates they don’t need to be in. In south shields for example the E’s take people from one town to another via main roads, whilst other local routes take people in those estates, to either the town where they need to be or to the main roads to connect to other services. I apologise for my over use of main roads lol
