(14 Jan 2015, 9:34 pm)aureolin wrote People round this area are sick of Arriva, and their complete disregard for passengers who use their local services. Their services are full to bursting at peak times, because of the deal Arriva have with Durham Uni, yet they're unwilling to sensibly look at the issues. 

The 64 is also full to bursting at times because of New College students and Frmawellgate school kids. Had to put up with buses going past full for two years and what have they done, allocate buses with less seats - ridiculous!

I'm interested to see how these services come out, I think the X20 suggestion could maybe be good especially if it runs hourly during the daytime and the Arriva X24 used to be busy at times when it used to run at Bishop Auckland but not sure how it would do as an hourly service. Also think 30 minutes between Durham and the MetroCentre is incredibly tight especially with the roadworks until March 2016.