(01 Jul 2025, 9:31 pm)ALavery wrote I will never get over the painful extra 10 minutes it takes to trundle through ryhope and hendon on the 61. I don’t understand why that way of thinking wasn’t left for local routes instead of ones out of sunderland. But hey ho.
The whole 61 is a mess. It should be at least 3 separate routes. Dawdling all the way from Pennywell to Peterlee in an insane route still that makes no sense. It's absolutely baffling for passengers who use it.
People scoffing when I tell them it takes an hour and 10 minutes from Park Lane to Peterlee, people in Murton waiting for a bus to Sunderland confused as to why I drive past them twice going in the other direction. People confused on the return journey that it doesn't serve Park Lane and terminates in different places (sometimes that place being Park Lane).