(8 hours ago)Storx wrote Surely the point of the X24 is to let people from the West side of Sunderland have a direct bus to Newcastle?
If you made it limited stop along there then it's a bit pointless? Anyone sane is going to use the quicker 5 Metros an hour.
Most of the main stops i.e hospital, wavendon, broadway, grindon mill and Hastings hill are within a 2 minute walk from little stops i.e chester gate, thats what kills the x24 running time as i say especially if a 16 is late, ive known it to be bang on time at hastings hill heading into sunderland yet be 7/8 minutes late into fawcett street not because of traffic its because its now taking the slack from a delayed 16 or passenger who dont want to walk from park lane down to fawcett street and with a 3 minute layover in town its already 5 minutes late onto its next trip and then it has a domino effect until the start of the peak when layover and running times are increased.
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