(12 Nov 2023, 4:11 pm)54APhotography wrote South Tyne has to be the one. Stagecoach are unusually sitting back and doing nothing. No point waiting on the traffic commissioner. Get some routes banged in now....
See if I was SNE and doing a route, if I can depending on the Cobalt funding situation. I'd be looking at splitting the 22 and sending half the buses along to either Whitley Bay or North Shields, depending how much you want to go into Arriva's 306 territory.
I'd be tempted to extend the 39/40 whichever one it is that goes to Wallsend through to Hadrian Park aswell.
It'll benefit your customers aswell with through links from Byker further East and with connections at North Shields to get through the tunnel, with the 317 aswell. Other than the Coast Road, you've pretty much just bullied GNE out of North Tyneside as there's only the 307/309 left with any purpose.
Can probably guess where I'd be going if I was Arriva and had drivers and buses spare aswell.
The 24 corridor in Sunderland / South Shields would be the other corridor I'd be looking at and dominate the South Shields to Sunderland flow combined with the E's