(21 May 2025, 7:01 pm)ALavery wrote 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.

Dual door buses on the Consett services would not improve boarding times, at all. In fact they'd increase boarding times as you'd just remove 4 seats from the downstairs so pensioners would have to go further to get a seat. 

All the services are one directional ie. towards/from Newcastle so having a middle door when no-one leaves at the same stop has zero benefits and no company is going to allow middle door boarding as no-one will pay.

Darlington would have capacity issues since they use midibuses due to the tight streets and it's not County Durham anyway.