(3 hours ago)TheClumsyPineapple wrote There really is no demand at all for the X70. Its literally dead excluding the morning and evening peak.
I politely disagree with single deckers as the entire corridor is busy on X45/47 deckers are needed for the route. As even from consett there are healthy loads. Single deckers make no sense for it as they're always rammed whenever singles are put on.
It's the hourly that's a big problem though, it's borderline unusable for people who aren't working on fixed times as you could be sitting around 45 minutes if you time things wrong.
It's why everything ideally needs to be every 30 minutes so it's actually useable.
There's way too many hourly services right now imo. Obviously, assuming the routes you replied to, if it failed, you could get rid of it as it's mostly covered by other services anyway hence the day time running only but it's got a better chance being more frequent imo especially places like Leadgate etc.