(Yesterday, 2:52 pm)Storx wrote 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...?

I can see the appeal of cross-city routes too, but they need to be done right.

Look at the 62A. 45 mins end to end and half an hour for someone getting to/from work at the hospital from Moorside.
They could get the 4, walk along Barnes Park Road and still be there at work before the 62A gets anywhere near the hospital.

They're both cross-city services. Just done slightly 'differently'.