(08 Feb 2025, 5:59 pm)Storx wrote I always think it's a shame that the 18 was binned by Stagecoach. It arguably would have been the best route to extend up there as no-one North of Four Lane Ends is realistically going to be using the thing to head to Newcastle unless they have a refusal to use Arriva services for some bizarre reason.

Would've opened up a few new links and meant the 18 actually ran to somewhere rather than a dead end terminus of Benton Square.

The 18 is a funny route, sometimes it's packed, and sometimes it's totally dead, but it's quite surprising that it's still going, problem is is the shadowing of routes
37/62/63(in part)/352/353(in part)/354(in part)/X63 (in part)
38/63/355
Then as of March throw the 342 and 356 into the mix
Technically the 18 and 335 could be merged together, Powder Monkey-Benton is covered by the 342