Shortest Passenger Bus Route

[Tramfan]

The 68 from Four Lane Ends to the DSS has that beat time-wise, at four minutes each way: https://bustimes.org/services/68-four-lane-ends-metro-dss-tyneview-park

It was probably once quite a popular route but I haven't witnessed many folk on it whenever I've gone through Four Lane Ends in the peaks.

Occasionally seems to have 1 or 2 on it, often nobody, although it seems to be booked to be a decker - certainly in the mornings, the bus working it runs onto the 39/40.

Four lane ends bus station also used to see a service to the nearby Quroum business park (the 555) which used to be timed at 5 mins one way and 4 mins the other, although it was dropped a while back.

 

[Jimmi]

The shortest route that I can think of in the North East is probably the cathedral bus in Durham. There are a couple of variants; the shortest appears to shuttle between the city centre/riverside and cathedral. The timetable gives 6 minutes to complete the 0.8 mile route. It interworks with a slightly longer (and more useful) shuttle to the railway station which takes 10 minutes. I can't say I've ever seen these services busy but the council tenders them, and in fairness they do get a few passengers because they run up what is quite a steep hill.

They're pretty lightly used from my observations of them most the time, never, the only time I've really seen that group of services busy was the 41 that runs from the Rail Station to the University Science Park at peak times.