(4 hours ago)V514DFT wrote Been talking in the Arriva thread, so thought i'd bring it over the right thread
55- Forest Hall- Wardley/Follingsby Amazon, pretty straightforward really, its the 355 merged with the 57/58
another one i was thinking of
56- Great Park- Sunderland
56 merged with the Q3 although probably not via Osbourne Road
Q3- numbered to Q1, and curtailed at Hollywood Avenue, going the other way extends to the Cobalt via Howdon/ High Howdon reinstating links that were lost 5½ years ago through the loss of the 42/42A
Yeah shouldn't be any issues with the 57/355 being merged. The 57 literally sits around for 20 minutes or so every run anyway, complete waste of resource imo.
You couldn't merge the 57/58 though as it does a loop around Wardley so wouldn't really work.
Flipping the 57/58 there wouldn't really work either as you'd lose the Wardley to QE link.
Imo the Q3 just shouldn't exist - at all North of Newcastle. There's no need for it, let Stagecoach and Arriva run the corridor as they both dominate it anyway.