(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.

I could name a few services which would benefit like the 21, 50, 20. It’s not just Durham city centre but County Durham as a whole. I’m sure there are busy services in darlington, I know services from consett & stanley into Newcastle can get quite busy sometimes. It might not be needed in one area or for most routes but like I said it’s future proofing. Services will only get busier as we get to pre pandemic levels.