(11 Apr 2015, 4:30 pm)Andreos1 wrote What about round Chester?
Pelton/South Pelaw vs Garden Farm, Pelton Fell and Riverside?
Gateshead town centre is well served from all directions.
Sunderland and Newcastle?
Obviously each operator has it's own patch.
Durham.
GNE have the north, north west and east covered well, less so from the south west and nowt from the south, or west.
From Stagecoach in Sunderland's Wheatsheaf Depot into the City Centre, there are 61 buses per hour.
Stagecoach:
3 (6)
4 (6)
13 (6)
16 (6)
18 (2)
23 (6)
E1 (3)
E2 (3)
E6 (3)
Total (39)
Go North East:
9 (4)
20/20A (6)
35 (2)
36 (2)
56 (6)
X36 (2)
Total (22)
If you wish to include the 700 from the Stadium of Light, add another 4. Throw the Metro in, and you've got another 5 trains per hour to get you into the City Centre.
There is no way customer demand would justify a bus every minute, but we have such a high level of traffic flowing through as crossing the Wearmouth Bridge is the main corridor into the City Centre. The same applies to the villages such as Lambton, and as you've said, it's due to their close proximity to the main 'hub' (Washington Galleries).