(09 Dec 2014, 6:19 pm)Dan wrote There are a lot of advantages to all customers.
Services 2/2C
Services 20/20A
- Improved cross-city connections
- Silksworth gains a more frequent service to/from Royal Hospital (every 10 mins, opposed to current 60 mins)
- Possibility for increased layover to provide increased reliability
Services 33/39
- Improved cross-city connections
- Peak time X20s should be re-worked so that they fall under the 'Prince Bishops' brand and don't work off delayed scholars
- Possibility for increased layover to provide increased reliability
Services 35/36
- Service 39 increased to every 15 minutes
- Service 33 introduced providing new links between Silksworth and Doxford Park (Stagecoach's service 13 doesn't entirely achieve this as it doesn't go to Vicarage Farm Estate)
Service 38
- Improved cross-city connections
- Direct link between Fencehouses and Sunderland reinstated
- Improved frequency on current 29 route between Sunderland and Town End Farm (every 15 mins, opposed to current 20 mins)
Service 56
- Direct links between Silksworth and Houghton-le-Spring are retained
- Grasswell gains a direct bus to Sunderland
Go North East have really thought these changes through - and most importantly, they've been directly made as a result of customer requests. I previously suggested that residents of Sunderland must prefer the cross-city nature style of services owing to Stagecoach's dominance within the city, with this method being Stagecoach's set up. I really don't think it's a coincidence that lots of cross-city style services are being introduced.
- Increased layover to provide increased reliability
Just thinking, the 2/2A - which way will they run in and out the city center, like the current laser will it enter park lane twice?