(Yesterday, 1:22 pm)deanmachine wrote I used to get that from Heworth to the Galleries, but the fact is the 4 showed up like 2 minutes after and was pretty much just as quick. It's just the 83A was the first bus that got there after I got off my Metro, same with the other people who got it.

I used to use it beyond the Galleries, but it was always hit and miss. 

You'd generally have a few cleaners who jumped off at the Arts Centre, but then it was one or two for the Spire Hospital, and sometimes people between Fatfield and the bottom of Vigo Lane. It was only ever me on all the way to Chester-le-Street, but it connected perfectly for the 07.03 21 into Durham.

When I've used it post-Covid, I've generally been the only one on it.

I did suggest in the consultation on cancellation, that they could re-purpose the resource into running the route in reverse. The X1A on a morning shows that there's a market for alternative connections into Newcastle.