(20 May 2025, 1:34 pm)BusLoverMum wrote The stops on North Road are already in use for Durham City services. Having stops further down North road, as was the case while the bus station was being rebuilt was chaotic and dangerous and a nightmare for almost anyone with disabilities, whether physical, sensory or neurological.

Dual door buses are completely unnecessary for mostly rural and small town services that have at most half a dozen people getting on or off for most of the journey.

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But what would the point be? We don't have consistently busy urban sprawl anywhere round here. Our city centres are all compact so there are no efficiency gains to be made there.

Must admit I can't see any benefits of dual door buses in County Durham on any route. They're only good on urban routes where you have a lot of turnarounds. The 56 is a prime example of a GNE bus as you have it at the QE, Wrekenton, Nissan, Southwark, Stadium of Light and Gateshead so for that type of route they'd made sense.

All the Stagecoach cross city routes in Newcastle are the same.