(08 Feb 2025, 4:00 pm)Storx wrote  
To be fair, none of the cross city links have been lost bar Silksworth to the hospital on a magical mystery tour of the world or extreme journeys like Grangetown to Washington which will not be popular.  

It's more local issues really Silksworth to ASDA and Ryhope Village to Doxford Park which appear to the 2 big ones more than anything and then the issues with the 61 now being too long and having the same issues which blighted the 2 - that should not be going across Sunderland either imo.

If course there has.
Whether it's one, two or 44 people - there's now changes and additional costs for those people.

I know people living in Washington who have relied on it to get to teaching roles in Sunderland that lie not far off Ryhope Road. 
If they get the bus now, what was one journey is now two buses and a change. And at additional cost. 
A change which isn't exactly ideal with all of the cancellations. The inconvenience doesn't really encourage them to use the bus on a daily basis and buy a longer term ticket either.

Appreciate that's only one example. But as we both know, there will be others.

Operational convenience vs passenger convenience only tends to result in one outcome.