Go North East: Service Suggestions v2
Go North East: Service Suggestions v2
(05 May 2023, 12:15 pm)Rob44 LOL. Actually come to think about it when the 44 used to stop at St Marys place I once had the driver shout he'd be there for at least 5 minutes so the bus emptied.A route that could actually do with being brought back either as a commuter service or a half hourly spin off to the 308 & 309.
(05 May 2023, 12:15 pm)Rob44 LOL. Actually come to think about it when the 44 used to stop at St Marys place I once had the driver shout he'd be there for at least 5 minutes so the bus emptied.A route that could actually do with being brought back either as a commuter service or a half hourly spin off to the 308 & 309.
(07 May 2023, 1:49 pm)L469 YVK A route that could actually do with being brought back either as a commuter service or a half hourly spin off to the 308 & 309.Send it via Marden Estate as per old 44 then withdraw the useless extention of the 306 between Tynemouth and Whitley Bay.
X38 - Whitley Bay Town Centre - same as 308 to Lynn Road - Regent Terrace - Verne Road - Norham Road Retail Park - Willington Square then non-stop to St Mary's Place.
Would give a faster service than the 308 in parts and also give Verne Road a faster service than the 307 to Newcastle as well as cater for the new builds on Norham Road.
Could even 'dock' services in the according oppostie flow direction to form the X39 runs.
(07 May 2023, 1:49 pm)L469 YVK A route that could actually do with being brought back either as a commuter service or a half hourly spin off to the 308 & 309.Send it via Marden Estate as per old 44 then withdraw the useless extention of the 306 between Tynemouth and Whitley Bay.
X38 - Whitley Bay Town Centre - same as 308 to Lynn Road - Regent Terrace - Verne Road - Norham Road Retail Park - Willington Square then non-stop to St Mary's Place.
Would give a faster service than the 308 in parts and also give Verne Road a faster service than the 307 to Newcastle as well as cater for the new builds on Norham Road.
Could even 'dock' services in the according oppostie flow direction to form the X39 runs.
(08 May 2023, 10:13 am)ian foster Send it via Marden Estate as per old 44 then withdraw the useless extention of the 306 between Tynemouth and Whitley Bay.Something like the following......
(08 May 2023, 10:13 am)ian foster Send it via Marden Estate as per old 44 then withdraw the useless extention of the 306 between Tynemouth and Whitley Bay.Something like the following......
(08 May 2023, 11:33 am)L469 YVK Something like the following......
https://goo.gl/maps/FWGZ7kMJQf2qnVYp9
Service X38 - Marden Estate Loop - Hillheads - North Tyneside Hospital - Billy Mill Lane - Lynn Road - Regent Terrace - The Quadrant - Verne Road - Norham Road then non-stop to St Mary's Place and Newcastle Haymarket.
Should be do-able with a PVR of 3x
* Covers Marden Estate and still offers links to shops and restores the link to North Tyneside Hospital from Marden.
* Covers the 308 between Hillheads and Billy Mill
* Covers the 307 through the Quadrant, Verne Road and Norham Road
(08 May 2023, 11:33 am)L469 YVK Something like the following......
https://goo.gl/maps/FWGZ7kMJQf2qnVYp9
Service X38 - Marden Estate Loop - Hillheads - North Tyneside Hospital - Billy Mill Lane - Lynn Road - Regent Terrace - The Quadrant - Verne Road - Norham Road then non-stop to St Mary's Place and Newcastle Haymarket.
Should be do-able with a PVR of 3x
* Covers Marden Estate and still offers links to shops and restores the link to North Tyneside Hospital from Marden.
* Covers the 308 between Hillheads and Billy Mill
* Covers the 307 through the Quadrant, Verne Road and Norham Road
(11 May 2023, 11:04 pm)Malarkey I've noticed over the past few weeks Go North East having been doing driver training through Gosforth to Regent Centre before heading up Regent Farm Road onto Wansbeck Road which got me wondering if they could have a variation of the Q3 on the cards.
(11 May 2023, 11:04 pm)Malarkey I've noticed over the past few weeks Go North East having been doing driver training through Gosforth to Regent Centre before heading up Regent Farm Road onto Wansbeck Road which got me wondering if they could have a variation of the Q3 on the cards.
(08 May 2023, 11:33 am)L469 YVK Something like the following......no send X38 to Whitley Bay via the old 44 route non stop between St. Mary's Place and Norham Rd. to replace the useless extension of 306 between Tynemouth and Whitley Bay
https://goo.gl/maps/FWGZ7kMJQf2qnVYp9
Service X38 - Marden Estate Loop - Hillheads - North Tyneside Hospital - Billy Mill Lane - Lynn Road - Regent Terrace - The Quadrant - Verne Road - Norham Road then non-stop to St Mary's Place and Newcastle Haymarket.
Should be do-able with a PVR of 3x
* Covers Marden Estate and still offers links to shops and restores the link to North Tyneside Hospital from Marden.
* Covers the 308 between Hillheads and Billy Mill
* Covers the 307 through the Quadrant, Verne Road and Norham Road
(08 May 2023, 11:33 am)L469 YVK Something like the following......no send X38 to Whitley Bay via the old 44 route non stop between St. Mary's Place and Norham Rd. to replace the useless extension of 306 between Tynemouth and Whitley Bay
https://goo.gl/maps/FWGZ7kMJQf2qnVYp9
Service X38 - Marden Estate Loop - Hillheads - North Tyneside Hospital - Billy Mill Lane - Lynn Road - Regent Terrace - The Quadrant - Verne Road - Norham Road then non-stop to St Mary's Place and Newcastle Haymarket.
Should be do-able with a PVR of 3x
* Covers Marden Estate and still offers links to shops and restores the link to North Tyneside Hospital from Marden.
* Covers the 308 between Hillheads and Billy Mill
* Covers the 307 through the Quadrant, Verne Road and Norham Road
Hopefully if passenger numbers continue to improve, which I assume the £2 max single fare is massively helping with, there is potential for it to return.
Service 57 currently has over 20 minutes sitting at Market Street, which is clearly inefficient.
Either operate it to a similar route as the Coaster 1 from Gateshead to Newcastle. This would provide a direct link to Central Station from Old Durham Road and East Gateshead.
Or on arrival in Newcastle, operate up John Dobson Street, St Mary's Place, Percy Street and Newgate Street, in a similar fashion to the old 'City Loop' that Go Ahead Gateshead used to have, offering alternative stop locations in the city for customers travelling to/from East Gateshead, while opening up easier connections to/from the north of the city.
Anything has to be better than having a driver earning zero money for that long!
Idea to replace Arriva's 306 between Whitley Bay and Tynemouth (more Marden)
- 306 Tynemouth to Newcastle only - PVR of 306/308 reduced to 13x
- NEW X38 operated by Go North East - Every 30 minutes Mon - Sat daytime
* Marden Estate Loop (clockwise) - Broadway - Hillheads - NT Hospital - Billy Mill - Norham Road then non-stop to St Mary's Place & Haymarket (doesn't serve St Mary's place Eastbound).
- PVR increase of 1x for the overall Coast Road network, but faster journeys for most of the outer parts of the 308/309 which don't have a nearby Metro or alternative 'X' service.
- Link restored from Marden to NT Hospital. Link to Preston Grange Morrisons lost but links to other shops including an alternative Morrisons gained.
- Interworks with 307 & 309 - avoids driver changeovers at Formica to keep journey times fast.
- Could be 'docked' in the according peak flow direction to provide X39 boards.
(25 May 2023, 5:14 pm)L469 YVK Idea to replace Arriva's 306 between Whitley Bay and Tynemouth (more Marden)
- 306 Tynemouth to Newcastle only - PVR of 306/308 reduced to 13x
- NEW X38 operated by Go North East - Every 30 minutes Mon - Sat daytime
* Marden Estate Loop (clockwise) - Broadway - Hillheads - NT Hospital - Billy Mill - Norham Road then non-stop to St Mary's Place & Haymarket (doesn't serve St Mary's place Eastbound).
- PVR increase of 1x for the overall Coast Road network, but faster journeys for most of the outer parts of the 308/309 which don't have a nearby Metro or alternative 'X' service.
- Link restored from Marden to NT Hospital. Link to Preston Grange Morrisons lost but links to other shops including an alternative Morrisons gained.
- Interworks with 307 & 309 - avoids driver changeovers at Formica to keep journey times fast.
- Could be 'docked' in the according peak flow direction to provide X39 boards.
(25 May 2023, 5:14 pm)L469 YVK Idea to replace Arriva's 306 between Whitley Bay and Tynemouth (more Marden)
- 306 Tynemouth to Newcastle only - PVR of 306/308 reduced to 13x
- NEW X38 operated by Go North East - Every 30 minutes Mon - Sat daytime
* Marden Estate Loop (clockwise) - Broadway - Hillheads - NT Hospital - Billy Mill - Norham Road then non-stop to St Mary's Place & Haymarket (doesn't serve St Mary's place Eastbound).
- PVR increase of 1x for the overall Coast Road network, but faster journeys for most of the outer parts of the 308/309 which don't have a nearby Metro or alternative 'X' service.
- Link restored from Marden to NT Hospital. Link to Preston Grange Morrisons lost but links to other shops including an alternative Morrisons gained.
- Interworks with 307 & 309 - avoids driver changeovers at Formica to keep journey times fast.
- Could be 'docked' in the according peak flow direction to provide X39 boards.
Haven’t done a suggestion in a while, but with upcoming changes to Arriva etc. just remember the farce that is the 61 and the around the world trip in Murton. Probably would be a tendered service, perhaps interworking with the 71 at Seaham?
Service 72 | Peterlee - Seaham via South Hetton, Murton & Dalton Park
> Could go Burnhope Way & Acre Rigg Road in Peterlee then onto Essington Way towards Little Thorpe, providing links to East Durham College & Lancaster Hill.
> In Murton, could run direct via Station Road then via Barnes Road, Burnip Road & Truro Avenue - providing direction buses to Seaham Town Centre from this area.
> Follow the old 62/202 route via Spectrum Business Park & Dawdon in/out of Seaham. Therefore, would reinstate buses to Princess Road, who are unserved at present.
> 61 would then revert to Sunderland to Murton only, with equal spaced timetable throughout.
(01 Jun 2023, 11:33 pm)Drifter60 Haven’t done a suggestion in a while, but with upcoming changes to Arriva etc. just remember the farce that is the 61 and the around the world trip in Murton. Probably would be a tendered service, perhaps interworking with the 71 at Seaham?
Service 72 | Peterlee - Seaham via South Hetton, Murton & Dalton Park
> Could go Burnhope Way & Acre Rigg Road in Peterlee then onto Essington Way towards Little Thorpe, providing links to East Durham College & Lancaster Hill.
> In Murton, could run direct via Station Road then via Barnes Road, Burnip Road & Truro Avenue - providing direction buses to Seaham Town Centre from this area.
> Follow the old 62/202 route via Spectrum Business Park & Dawdon in/out of Seaham. Therefore, would reinstate buses to Princess Road, who are unserved at present.
> 61 would then revert to Sunderland to Murton only, with equal spaced timetable throughout.
(01 Jun 2023, 11:33 pm)Drifter60 Haven’t done a suggestion in a while, but with upcoming changes to Arriva etc. just remember the farce that is the 61 and the around the world trip in Murton. Probably would be a tendered service, perhaps interworking with the 71 at Seaham?
Service 72 | Peterlee - Seaham via South Hetton, Murton & Dalton Park
> Could go Burnhope Way & Acre Rigg Road in Peterlee then onto Essington Way towards Little Thorpe, providing links to East Durham College & Lancaster Hill.
> In Murton, could run direct via Station Road then via Barnes Road, Burnip Road & Truro Avenue - providing direction buses to Seaham Town Centre from this area.
> Follow the old 62/202 route via Spectrum Business Park & Dawdon in/out of Seaham. Therefore, would reinstate buses to Princess Road, who are unserved at present.
> 61 would then revert to Sunderland to Murton only, with equal spaced timetable throughout.
(02 Jun 2023, 7:11 am)Storx They should just ditch the 61 imo.
Personally something like this would be better
X7: Sunderland - Direct - Ryhope - Direct - Seaham - Spectrum Business Park - (Garden Village) - Dalton Park - Murton
X6/X7 - Every 15 Minutes Combined.
Then try and push all the Sunderland to Seaham passengers onto the X6/X7 as it's now frequent enough to try and help out the 60 a bit so it's mostly local passengers instead.
There's no need for the number of buses via West Lea etc and Murton passengers can still get there with the 65. There's also a decent bus services for the garden village which is very much under construction now rather than it being an after thought like usual.
(02 Jun 2023, 7:11 am)Storx They should just ditch the 61 imo.
Personally something like this would be better
X7: Sunderland - Direct - Ryhope - Direct - Seaham - Spectrum Business Park - (Garden Village) - Dalton Park - Murton
X6/X7 - Every 15 Minutes Combined.
Then try and push all the Sunderland to Seaham passengers onto the X6/X7 as it's now frequent enough to try and help out the 60 a bit so it's mostly local passengers instead.
There's no need for the number of buses via West Lea etc and Murton passengers can still get there with the 65. There's also a decent bus services for the garden village which is very much under construction now rather than it being an after thought like usual.
(02 Jun 2023, 8:45 am)cbma06 Since GNE was the first one to start cutting back services awhile ago before stagecoach and Arriva decided to start cutting back from July , I wonder if there be more cuts to GNE services before the end of this year.
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(02 Jun 2023, 8:45 am)cbma06 Since GNE was the first one to start cutting back services awhile ago before stagecoach and Arriva decided to start cutting back from July , I wonder if there be more cuts to GNE services before the end of this year.
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(02 Jun 2023, 9:04 am)Rob44 as stated by Dan all those months ago TBF
(02 Jun 2023, 9:04 am)Rob44 as stated by Dan all those months ago TBF
(02 Jun 2023, 10:48 am)Andreos1 Even a broken clock is right twice a dayTheres a market there, the book of Andreos quotes
Seriously though, for all I whitter on about operators needing to adapt their networks to suit the modern age, at least the others didn't go at the network like a mad axeman given the first opportunity.
The fruit isn't going to grow if you chop the branches off the tree.
(02 Jun 2023, 10:48 am)Andreos1 Even a broken clock is right twice a dayTheres a market there, the book of Andreos quotes
Seriously though, for all I whitter on about operators needing to adapt their networks to suit the modern age, at least the others didn't go at the network like a mad axeman given the first opportunity.
The fruit isn't going to grow if you chop the branches off the tree.
(02 Jun 2023, 8:45 am)cbma06 Since GNE was the first one to start cutting back services awhile ago before stagecoach and Arriva decided to start cutting back from July , I wonder if there be more cuts to GNE services before the end of this year.
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(02 Jun 2023, 8:45 am)cbma06 Since GNE was the first one to start cutting back services awhile ago before stagecoach and Arriva decided to start cutting back from July , I wonder if there be more cuts to GNE services before the end of this year.
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