Go North East: Service Suggestions v2

Storx

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10 Jun 2023, 6:20 pm #2,823

(10 Jun 2023, 12:04 am)L469 YVK Or.....an option to fully merge the 51 into the Coast Road network and shake off the 'Micky Mouse' route image
- 305 (every 30 minutes / 60 minutes) - Basically same as 51, half hourly Newcastle - Holystone Park, hourly to Whitley Bay
- 306 (every 30 minutes) - Newcastle to Tynemouth, additionally serves Hadrian Park
- 307 (every 30 minutes) - via Cobalt instead of Hadrian Park
- 308 (every 30 minutes) - Newcastle to Whitley Bay only, additionally serves Battle Hill Drive and via Marden Estate rather than Hillheads
- 309 (every 30 minutes) - Same route as now
- X38 (every 20 minutes) - Blyth to Coast Road / Wallsend Dene (same as current 308) then non-stop to Civic Centre, St Mary's Place and Haymarket
* Every 6 minutes Newcastle - Station Road
* Frequent Newcastle - Battle Hill service
* Relatively even 4x buses per hour Newcastle - Billy Mill
* Relatively even 4x buses per hour Newcastle - High Farm
* New X38 will be popular with 306/308 intentionally slowed down to 'encourage' passengers to use X38

See personally if I was going to do this I'd just scrap everything and start again, the routes now aren't ideal and are from yesteryear and change it to something like.

55 - Every 30 Minutes, Current Route
56 - Every 30 Minutes, Newcastle - South Gosforth - Four Lane Ends - Benton - Benton Rise - ASDA - Holystone - Shiremoor - Briardene - Whitley Bay
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55/56 - Every 15 Minutes, Newcastle to Benton

57/57A - Whitley Bay to North Shields restored

Cobalt Connect
80 - Every 30 Minutes, Newcastle - Selby Gardens - Wallsend Dene - Silverlink (The Silverlink) - Cobalt - New York - NT Hospital - Whitley Bay - Blyth via Links Road
80A - Every 30 Minutes, Newcastle - Selby Gardens - Wallsend Dene - Silverlink (The Silverlink) - Cobalt - New York - NT Hospital - Whitley Bay - Blyth via South Beach
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80/80A - Every 15 Minutes, Express Newcastle to Silverlink / Cobalt / Whitley Bay / Blyth

Coastal Loop
81 - Every 30 Minutes, Newcastle - Selby Gardens - Battle Hill - Silverlink (A1058) - Billy Mill - Lynn Road - NT Hospital - Morrisons - Marden - Cullercoats - Tynemouth
82 - Every 30 Minutes, Newcastle - Selby Gardens - Battle Hill - Silverlink (A1058) - Verne Road - Central Avenue - Landestown Terrace - Hawkeys Lane - North Shields - Tynemouth
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81/82 - Every 15 Minutes, Express Newcastle to Battle Hill, Then serve all the coast - connect with each other in Tynemouth

'The Slow Ones' Loop
83 - Every 30 Minutes, Newcastle - Wiltshire Drive - High Farm - Battle Hill - Middle Engine Lane - Norham Road - Billy Mill - Queen Alexander Road - North Shields
84 - Every 30 Minutes, Newcastle - Battle Hill - High Farm - Hadrian Park - Middle Engine Lane - Norham Road - Meadowell - North Shields
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83/84 - Every 15 Minutes, Newcastle - Middle Engine Lane - Cobalt South - Norham Road, connect with each other in North Shields

Other Combined Corridors
57/57A/83, Every 15 Minutes Billy Mill to North Shields
80/80A/81/82 - Every 7.5 Minutes, Newcastle to Selby Gardens
81/82/83/84 - 8x buses, Newcastle to Battle Hill

It connects communities together much better than what's there now and makes more sense with the 306 extension and also reduces the overkill of buses at the Northern side. I'd imagine it's actually a PVR reduction from it but haven't worked it. Tynemouth etc still has the same buses but they just go in opposite directions for example and most people arguably should be using the Metro anyway. I know there's a few areas with reductions ie. Lynn Road and the 306 from Billy Mill to Tynemouth but somewhere had to take the hit and sadly it was them but most of it has gained the 57/57A to compensate for it for people doing local journeys.