RE: Go North East: Upcoming Service Changes v2
(15 Jul 2017, 5:11 pm)cbma06 wrote On a normal day by the time the X10 pulls off the A19 and gone into dalton park and back on the A19, the X10 would of already passed Peterlee, if there's an event on at dalton park then the X10 would probably of reached norton or Stockton by the time it rejoined A19, can see this as a bad idea, what's wrong with passengers alighting at A19 northbound and then jump on the X6 to dalton park at the same bus stop and doing southbound get off at moorcock and walk around the corner to jump on the X10 southbound
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That would only work with 2 conditions:
1: The connection time between the X10 and X6 was short enough not to put people off, in both directions, and long enough not to be a right PITA if one of the buses is 10 minutes late. People don't want to be waiting around for an hour because they've missed their connection.
2: People particularly don't want to be waiting around in a location that has no shelter and nothing to do. (as an illustration I missed my connection at Durham bus station, by a minute, yesterday, leaving me with 29 minutes to kill. As it happened, I was carrying nothing, so the centre of Durham is easy enough to kill half an hour in, even after many of the shops have shut. If it had been raining, most of the bus station offers protection from that, so long as you avoid the holes in the rood and don't trip over the buckets! I would be less than comfortable if I had been stranded at the Moorcock at 5:30pm, though)
(15 Jul 2017, 6:33 pm)callum2015 wrote After a quick look at googlemaps,would another solution for X10 be join A19 as normal from Norton,exit at Peterlee then via Burnhope Way to Peterlee BS,Up Easington Way then re-join the A19 at Little Thorpe (so the same as the X9 route) ? would still make the X10 Slightly quicker than the X9 by avoiding Billingham but not sure if it would be quicker than diverting it via Dalton Park
Billingham's bus services have been decimated enough already. You need to remember that a bus route is more than its end points. There are two completely different Durham-Sunderland services, for example, but they have little more than a mile of their routes in common. The ANE 22 passes my front door. The GNE 20/20A passes no closer than 4 miles away and is no good to me unless I catch a 22 to meet it. (and yes, I'm aware that pedants will remind me that the 20 goes through Sunderland to South Shields, these days, but you can make the same comparison of the 20/20A and the 50 if the start and end points matter that much. They don't even have any of their respective routes through Durham in common!)
