(25 Jul 2014, 12:57 pm)eezypeazy wrote The road works at the top of Park Road in Chester are causing widespread congestion - a much more likely explanation!
Is there any reason that the X21 can't serve Chester le Street front street, turn round at South Burns, and then go back out via Ropery Lane, A167, and then straight on to the A1 to Newcastle? Sure it'll take a few minutes longer to go out that way, but at least it's not backed up in traffic on Picktree Lane waiting for someone coming off the A167 to give way...?