(28 Mar 2025, 8:30 pm)LVK 404L wrote Shields 17 also listed as cancelled which is strange. Could we perhaps see mergers of Sunderland and Shields services
I don't know at all but if the numbers aren't there, you could easily send the 3/4 to do the Whiteleas loop as they do on the 1/2, they'd technically get a better service to South Shields than now, every 7.5 minutes vs every 15 minutes anyway as you could go either way round. 8 buses an hour along Stanhope Road I'd imagine is more than enough if it interworked with the 18. The 3/17 are basically timetabled on top of each other.