(2 hours ago)PH - BQA wrote Interworking the 1 and 57 with delay hotspots of Bebside and Moor Farm is a recipe for disaster too.
To be fair, it can't be any worse than it is. The 57/57A doesn't work currently at all; it badly needs the extra 8 minutes or so each board is getting now and both routes are getting the extra running time from the 1 doing Ashington to Wansbeck Hospital which is no longer used.
Like in an ideal world, I'd say add an extra bus and extend them all to Wansbeck Hospital since it's an important destination and would link the vast majority of SE Northumberland to the hospital, including an interconnecting hospital link between Wansbeck and Northumbria aswell but that's another discussion.