(11 hours ago)Andreos1 wrote 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'.

Aye totally agreed, the 62 is just a weird route, in general. It's like the long route serving nothing on the way which isn't served by other services. It's no surprise it's struggling really. 

In an ideal world, if you didn't want to change the routing it'd be better to join the thing together as one big loop. Who knows people from Pennywell etc might want to go to Doxford Park etc, it's arguably better than the horse shoe right now. 

Would cover parts of the 18 aswell since getting around Sunderland is a nightmare with doubling back via the centre.

It's not like it's an extension which would take 10 vehicles either if it was something like:


and none of the people on the blue extension have a hospital link either.