(Yesterday, 11:08 am)morritt89 wrote Is the issue with the Durham - Langley Park section the lack of local depot? It can always be bolted onto the end of another route but then you may have issues with driving time and also, if there is a breakdown, you have the response times and the knock on effects of this.
When I was as Deptford and did the X20, there was very few passengers that went from the Langley Park end passed through Durham City Centre (I do remember a couple of guys that went to Belmont Industrial Estate). Lots of People Langley Park to Arnison Centre though (and the college).
Is this service still being supported or has that ended?
Think it's just the Durham to Sunderland bit that's been funded, the rest is commercial I think.
The Arnison Centre is the biggest headache though as it's constantly busy at Christmas time so unless you give a lot of padding then it just messes everything up and it's at the wrong end of the route to regulate.
Not sure what the answer is really for GoNorthEast as nothing really works on it but I could understand why someone in Langley Park would be pissed off because the X20 got regulated and cut short (which does happen from time to time) and the next one isn't for 30 minutes.