(Yesterday, 12:36 pm)Theboyle92 wrote Ive had a bus with 37 pax on leaving sunderland and by the time its got to hastings hill 8 are left on the bus to go to Newcastle/Gateshead and its 9 minutes late with traffic at the broadway etc, thats whats killing the service its an express service with out the express experience along chester road, and its only going to get worse over the next few months with the demolition of the flyover in gateshead between the drivers we have worked out roughly a 20/25 minute delay to each service during the peak with the diversions or sitting on the felling bypass.
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Yeah could see it being a big issue Gateshead. It's a shame they couldn't bin off the Gateshead bus stops and then register the buses to come in some different ways, maybe one through the Tunnel and along the Coast Road and another via the A1 and Redheugh Bridge, during the demolition works.
Obviously longer in distance, but they're much pretty much same time wise as they're avoiding the traffic. Believe service buses get free tunnel journeys, if I'm correct.
Not sure how enforceable it would be but maybe another option would be to make it drop down towards Sunderland and pick up out of Sunderland only bar a few select stops.