(Yesterday, 9:08 am)Storx wrote Sorry I missed this, yeah I could imagine that would be the case to be honest but I guess it depends how many people are really using it or if it's people moaning for the sake of moaning.
Wonder if there might be additional changes coming to Darlington as part of this, mainly involving the 8/17 as it could easily work with one of them, if say the 8 was changed in some way.
Not sure sending the X12 through Fishburn would be good though as it'd extend it badly.
imo if Durham wanted to make changes, the best thing would be to split the 59 in half, the extreme double back via Trimdon pretty much makes it two bus routes anyway, with one side of it being extended South to Stockton and the other just terminating short somewhere. They might actually have some passengers then as they're rather quiet right now whenever I've seen them.
The 8/8A currently interworks with the 17, although I suspect that's now more so only one double decker has to be allocated to one board to do the school service 865 at both ends of the school day, can't imagine Arriva have anything major planned for the 8/8A at least, as likely would have to be a survey for that too - being in Tees Valley, don't think surveys would need to be made for the likes of the 16/17/18 although lord knows what's planned for all the Tees Valley contract services when the contracts are currently expected to end in the spring.
I would imagine that the X12 would require an extra 5 minutes if it were to serve Fishburn en route to Sedgefield.
Pretty much all the routes in that part of County Durham have been cut to within an inch of their lives that many are now of little use to many people, area needs a whole overhaul but given the levels services have been reduced to, I can only see further cuts and changes like what's currently being consulted on with the X22.