(Yesterday, 2:29 pm)Storx wrote Let's be honest, it's another issue with multiple operators and there not being enough demand and one of those being much better than the other (and it isn't GoNorthEast here). 

Stagecoach control that corridor now imo with the 16 and 20 which are both much superior services with the 8 filling the gaps. 

Personally I don't understand why the 62 doesn't run through Pennywell and continue somewhere West. Who knows, maybe people in Pennywell would like to go somewhere else than Sunderland with their 11 buses an hour going to there via nothing bar the hospital and you can up the frequency for another area. It's not like there's not enough areas around Shiney Row which next to zero bus service right now - maybe they'd like a link to a hospital and just make sure it goes via Fencehouses while we're at it or on a less joking reply, maybe it's an answer to the 79 running to nowhere. 

Ironically, the 79 (partially) fills the gaps left over when GNE got rid of the 164.
The 164 of course, passed the hospital and went to Seaburn. 
Diverging away from the 7mile convoy, but offering something slightly different for all those employees living on the north side of the river.