(07 Dec 2024, 7:36 pm)ALavery wrote 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.

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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