(31 Dec 2023, 10:45 pm)Unber43 Is that not due to lack of advertising and investment from local authorities
Nah, they're just not the answer. Like take the Tyne Bridge, there's 60k vehicles over there daily. The best P&R in the world, is what going to have 800 cars max, it's a pea in a pod for sorting the problems out.
There's no real traffic problems getting into Newcastle, what 10 mins max in a queue somewhere and parking is piss easy. The time you messed around waiting for the transport to turn up and then sitting in the same queue anyway if it's buses - what's the point.
Durham is mostly staff, if I'm right, as there's simply no where to park at all.
The Northumberland Line is the sort of stuff that will get moving from cars, massive car park then hop on the train miles out straight to town so you don't need to bother with the driving part. Take someone from like Newbiggin who might drive into town every day and is sick of the traffic at Moor Farm, they might now drive to Bebside, hoy there car in the station car park and train it from there. If they have to drive to the Regent Centre for example, you've already done the traffic so what's the point.
Shiney Row and the Leamside Line would be an ideal spot for this sort of stuff but the local bunch are more interested in their fantasy Metro lines to no-where with stations on the outskirts of towns with no real sensible P&R opportunities. Whitemare Pool wouldn't be bad either but there's no plans for a station there...
