And here's the proof that it can easily be sorted. X70 also consistently timed for school finishing times (presumably Emmanuel why there's currently a change in the X70 & X73 times during the afternoons??). X73 still fine for Metrocentre shift workers starting and finishing at the top of the hour.

Slight change to the evenings & Sundays too. Rather than having a bus sitting in Stanley for god knows how long, give an evening & Sunday service to East Stanley (doing a clockwise loop after / before commencing a trip to Newcastle) as well as a service to the Lobley Hill Estate. Easy wins with no extra resource.

And the 6, 12 and X45 split into their own interworking patterns on Sundays - to further reduce the need to allocate low height deckers on what should be a rest day!