(Yesterday, 7:13 am)RedKite wrote The plan is to extend the 38. It will operate at 30 minute intervals and turn in a temporary turning circle in phase 1, increasing to a 15 minute service and operate in a loop (the purple highlight) with phase 2 of development.  The 19 will be diverted to serve the northern part of Killingworth Moor through a new A19 underpasswith a 15 minute service.

I might have missed this earlier in the thread, but do you have a link to the documents included for the Killingworth Moor development?

I can't help but think creating an underpass for a bus service between two housing estates is a bit overkill. Novel and progressive, sure, but we've all seen how bus improvement measures (such as the Wardley Bus Gate, Barmoor Hub, Centrelink...) are constructed with all the good will in the world; then are abandoned by operators when services are cut, withdrawn, need to save time etc. I feel this bus underpass, if built, will suffer a similar fate.