There is someone at Park Lane doing a "consultation" according to a friend of mine. 20 going through to South Shields, 35 cut back to Sunderland and down to 15 minute frequency, X36 down to hourly through to Newcastle, the other terminated at Downhill. 99 cut to Seaburn to Townend Farm. Naturally he requested that the X3 is reinstated. ha ha.I imagine part of the reason for extending the 20 to South Shields will be to get people who want to spend a day at the seaside who live in the Durham area, I do imagine a decline in the reliability, if this does happen I'd hope to be proven wrong but the longer the route the worse it seems to be, wonder if it would be more reliable than the 50 is.
Despite comments on here saying that the X36 does rather well, everytime I've seen/rode this service it hasn't had many passengers onboard, especially at the Newcastle end of the route so I'm not surprised of the prospect of it going down to hourly to Newcastle.