Metro cancellation until New Year without replacement buses ‘totally outrageous and unacceptable’

Commenting on the announcement from Nexus that Metros won't run between Park Lane and South Hylton until the New Year, Lib Dem councillor for Pallion and Ford Estate Martin Haswell said:

"It is totally outrageous and unacceptable that Nexus haven't put a replacement bus service in place whist Metros won't be running to South Hylton, Pallion, Millfield and University.

"Existing bus routes don't offer a service to and from each station. It's simply not good enough to leave people and businesses in the lurch like this.

"It is also not entirely clear why, at the same time the line to South Hylton is closed, the remaining Metro services between Pelaw and Park Lane have to be reduced to just one every 24 minutes.

"Let's be honest, if this was a section of the track to and from Newcastle city centre this just wouldn't be happening. Once again it feels to passengers like Sunderland is being treated as little more than an afterthought by Nexus's Tyneside bosses."