(28 Dec 2014, 10:17 pm)Dan wrote Certainly don't think that the market is big enough for six Arriva services per hour between Sunderland and Peterlee - I think that the current five is too much, if I'm honest, as Arriva already have buses leaving Sunderland empty throughout the day... Have noticed some growth on the 23 since the new buses came in, but it hasn't been substantial.

It's always going to be awkward fitting the X21 in around the streamlined 15-minute frequency of the 22/23 though - and at the moment it would seem that Arriva's only choices are to put the X21 in front of one of the 22/23 services and those services suffering as all the passengers will go for the X21 instead, or keep things as they are at present with the X21 only leaving with a couple of passengers at the most out of Sunderland...

Yeah it is an issue that is not easily solved, leaving Peterlee for Sunderland just behind the 23 been the main one.

Mentioned this a few times but I can't stand them EcoCitys going around with the wrong destinations on the screens, often displaying 21 Peterlee instead of Peterlee for Sunderland on the ex demonstrator examples and I even saw a photo on Flickr the other day of a Peterlee bound X21 displaying the 21's Peterlee destination. Also I hate the flickering of the destination below Peterlee as one second it says for Sunderland then the next it says via Newton Aycliffe then probably a few other places before displaying for Sunderland again, it should say for Sunderland the whole time on the rest of Darlington depots buses.