Tbh, while these changes seem to be taken quite negetive, the new head of operations or whatever that rols called today, the one from scotland clearly has some plans.

However I would say 353 needs doubling in capacity, and in Sunderland, 61/62/62A/63/33/32/35/36 all need to use the bus station, its jsut so much easier, plus I would increase the 63 to every 30 mins on an evening. Plus increase the 26 to every 30 mins.