(8 hours ago)Theboyle92 wrote 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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Yeah get you, wonder how many people actually use it from end to end and whether another option would be to pull it from Sunderland like the X34 in South Shields does doing more estates or creating hospital links to somewhere that doesn't have them (or whatever).
I'm sure there's a few but I can't really see why anyone would want to use it end to end when the Metro is much much quicker and I don't believe Stagecoach Sunderland Day Tickets are valid if I'm right?