Personally I would reroute the 61 to do the old 62 route between dalton park and peterlee going straight through murton and have a 61A doing the normal route between pennywell and murton but doing the loop around murton ans then going back and have them at either every 40 minutes combined 20 or every 30 combined 15. That way people wanting their only bus to easington lane, south hetton, etc don’t have to spend an extra 10 or 20 minutes trundling around murtons estates to pick up two people who were probably standing on the through roads anyway.  The network in east durham and in general tbh really needs sorting out and this isn’t the way to do it.