Go North East: Service Suggestions v2

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22 Jul 2021, 8:54 pm #1,499

(22 Jul 2021, 7:12 pm)Storx Don't really see the point personally.

Blyth has the X7/X9/X10/X11/X30
Half of Seaton Sluice has the X7
Whitley / Monkseaton has the Metro

Once you take all of them away there's not that many people left, especially when there's a few who use them to travel to college or to Silverlink etc to warrant an express service along there.

Either way it should be an Arriva service anyway. One thing I do think could be changed is the fact there's currently 9 buses an hour between Whitley and Lynn Road yet streets 1/2 a mile away have nothing especially Marden, can't blame people like Ian for being genuinely annoyed as they're service is crap (55 mins believe it is) and it's too far to realistically walk to Cullercoats Metro / Foxhunters.

Plenty of people commute along the Coast Road between various points of North Tyneside.
This is all in addition to the ANE and GNE, the Metro and to an extent SNE.
All that competition and still there's traffic jams, cries for bus priority measures, road improvements etc.

In addition to that, you've got the A19 corridor teaming with business parks, manufacturing sites and new housing.
Despite that, money is spent on improving the road network or subsidising a bus between two desolate town centres and the Tyne Tunnel.

There's the A189 (which obviously connects directly/indirectly with both the A19 and Coast Road), with new housing at various points along it and business parks at various stages of it.
Despite that, it's more or less impossible to get to/from many of them using public transport.

Sticking with the same old route network isn't working.
Whacking a collapsible bench on a rear facing seat isn't working.
I'm not sure 'desirable' branding is doing anything other than creating identikit fleets up and down the country.

Someone needs to find out where the people are coming from, where they're going to and work out what will encourage them to make the modal shift.

It might be a quicker service, it may be variations to the network or it might mean new services that allow people to travel easily and quickly between places like (the sorts of journeys that can be a bit of a nightmare as it stands, but shouldn't be) Marden and Quorum, Annitsford and Cobalt, New York and Tyne Tunnel Trading Estate or Howdon and the AMP.
Not just Town Centre to City Centre, in some sort of multi-coloured convoy.

'Illegitimis non carborundum'

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