(Yesterday, 9:15 pm)DodgepotMcDougal wrote Chester Road Is the Gosforth High Street argument. It looks over subscribed with buses, but it isn't as those buses are using the quickest route in to Sunderland from various places which cannot be connected themselves in a reasonable manner.

Everyone wants a direct link to the hospital *just incase*. Most people don't go to hospital on a regular basis to justify direct links from everywhere. The most important bus journeys to/from Hospitals are for workers - not patients or visitors. Operators should concentrate on that, for example, I don't see why they can't divert the 32 via the Hospital at shift change times

But they aren't really coming from various places though are they? 
Look at the current GNE services and you will see they're all pretty much going to/from the same place. 

And I'm not sure everyone wants a direct link from everywhere either. 

Ultimately, if you don't live on the Chester Road corridor, you're not going to get a bus to the hospital because of the chew on.


Patient, visitor or employee.