(08 Apr 2025, 11:54 am)Andreos1 wrote But the multi-billion pound organisation owning SNE could quite easily take the hit, absorb NINO increases or adapt the route, so the taxpayer and residents in those areas don't lose out.
As they're not looking at the internal controllables and are firmly placing the blame at the door of the external factors, I think we all know where their priorities lie.
As I've said, they've issued the warnings for 2 years. They've chosen to do absolutely nothing about it themselves.
The problem is when do make changes to basketcase routes like it then someone from Gilley Law moans because they lose a link to a hospital they never use. It's just a political route but they can't afford it anymore.
imo this is the sort of route where the Bus Partnership should've took place and the BSIP funds used to fund a change to try and make the route sustainable in the future working together, even if it meant integrating another subsidised route as part of it. Instead they buried their head in the sand and funded the 21 instead.
(07 Apr 2025, 9:23 pm)stagecoachbusdepot wrote They’re only mostly lower numbers as it happens to be the ones left after decades of merging and cutting routes. At it’s peak, Busways operated numbers 2-29/31/32/104 (and a few other resurrected 100 prefixed numbers in competition with TWOC) in Sunderland. Many of them went in 1999 when they combined into cross City routes to coincide with the opening of the Interchange (which they only served for a short time). Then more went when traditional minibus routes were culled.
The 3 is what used to be the 2 & 27
The 4 is the old 4, 104 and bits of the 3 and 12.
The 8 is the 8/9 and part of the 14/14A.
The 13 is the old 13, 28, 29 (and 12).
The 16 is the old 5 & 16 (and part of the 6 & 7 from Witherwack).
The 18/18A is the remnant of the old 18/19 Grindon Circle, with a bit of the old 6 route mixed in (esp 18A).
The 10, 11, 20 & 23 are pretty much what they always were, with some routing changes over the years.
So from that lot, the old 15, 17, 21, 22 (open topper), 24, 25, 26, 31 have been lost entirely as have significant chunks of the old 6, 7, 14, 18, 19.
I’m sure I’ve probably missed a few as well.
Aye that's true, was curious on the history on the routes actually. Was aware of the massive cuts in the early 00's but didn't really follow it much then. Thanks for that.