(Yesterday, 12:02 pm)Andreos1 wrote 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.

I mean...that just isn't true. The 78 comes from Chester and 2 comes from Washington, they both use Chester Road as it's the quickest route, but you would never have the 78 running via Washington just to save two buses and hour running down Chester Road as that would just be stupid and you'd lose customers overall due to the journey length.

Ultimately you're not going to get a bus to Chester Road for the hospital as in all likelihood you won't need to go. That's just a fact. I'd boil down the numbers if I could be bothered but I think it works out at around 40 over 65s per day without access to a car from the whole of Sunderland that may have an appointment at the hospital each weekday. That is a tiny number no matter who runs the bus or where they go. Which is why it's better to focus on shift workers, as they could be regular bus users. Visitors and outpatients are a tiny, almost insignificant number.