(11 Apr 2015, 4:38 pm)Dan wrote From Stagecoach in Sunderland's Wheatsheaf Depot into the City Centre, there are 61 buses per hour.And 35 of those 60 Buses Per Hour go through Southwick before Branching out to serve various Housing Estates including Hylton Castle, Town End Farm and Downhill to name a few, I would say its purely down to the beauty of Direct Competition of Services between Go North East and Stagecoach rather than the high level of traffic flowing into Sunderland City Centre, Which is why there is such a high number of Buses per hour, lets not forget you also have the 99 from Southwick to Town End Farm also in among the Services listed above.
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) "Someone is forgetting the 56 now operates Every 12 Minutes"
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).
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