(Yesterday, 1:09 pm)Theboyle92 wrote Its normal route during the works however its along up sunderland road towards the roundabout then up past gateshead civic then down jackson street and back onto high street, when asked why can’t we just use the interchange they dont want to pay so unfortunately the passengers will have to suffer being stuck in traffic, and if anything does happen along Sunderland road during the peak then its sitting in traffic on the bypass, and as for drop off only pick up only how would it be enforced, we already have issues still with passengers on the X24A thinking it goes up ti hastings hill however once we turn at the broadway we have been told under no circumstances unless its an emergency to stop at any bus stop so you can imagine the torrent of abuse we get taking them to doxford international, one thing we have suggested is introducing a new X25 service along durham road and have it as a loop i.e X24 to Newcastle up chester road then back as a x25 along durham road and vice versa so most of sunderland is covered by a service to Newcastle.
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Not a bad shout that X25, I've always thought it would be a good idea to extend the Nexus 37 short through to Newcastle aswell, respect it's not Stagecoach's territory, but would do a similar thing - it's arguably better than a bus from no-where to no-where outside working hours.
The Gateshead routing sounds horrid, especially coming out of Newcastle, It's a shame they couldn't do it in sections, with the bit where the bus gate being done first so buses can run as normal during the really bad works.
Might actually help keep things moving, having the buses moving - at least.