(Yesterday, 2:44 pm)Andreos1 wrote 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.

Aye must admit I do prefer cross city routes, just makes more sense especially when the city is a place, which like you said, people don't really want to go to anymore. Okay there might not be much demand, but if both buses are running anyway - does it really matter anyway, unless the corridor is a real bottleneck of course. 

An obvious one to interwork something with would be the 9 imo, considering the buses are sitting around for 25+ minutes every round trip doing nothing. Not very 'productive' use of drivers which was a buzzword being thrown round a few month back.

It's okay I'm sure the councils will have their fix and built some more white elephant bus stations like North Shields and soon to be Bishop Auckland because a bus station is the key to drive people into a town though...?