(Yesterday, 12:19 am)Storx wrote Aye no arguments there but the rest of the route probably couldn't give a toss if it didn't exist and use something else instead. 

Ideally the 22/60/61 need to interwork really but it's not possible when you have 2 operators. 

On the Murton to Peterlee, surely it would be cheaper to extend whatever the minibus (forgot number) that runs upto Easington.

It's more than enough capacity wise really.

208? Problems with that are: it takes 27 minutes just to reach Easington from Peterlee, plus it would likely be rather awkward to schedule/resource especially when all the 'Peterlee Purples' already have to run on/off the X6 since the outstation at Peterlee was done away with.

EDIT: just realised the 62/62A did the current 208 route between Peterlee & Easington, little wonder it ended up not being commercially viable ?

(Yesterday, 5:07 am)ALavery wrote 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.

Most parts of County Durham out of the towns and Durham itself have declined massively over the last 20 or so years, East Durham in particular has been badly hit, doesn't help that East Durham is now an operational "black hole" meaning everything has to run on complicated interworking patterns from depots far away from the area.