RE: Arriva North East: Service Suggestions
(21 Sep 2020, 9:26 pm)V514DFT wrote Dont really use Arriva much,but what about this,im expecting to get slated
42-Haymarket,Town Moor,Gosforth High Street,Regent Centre,Wideopen,Dudley Lane/Green Lane,Annitsford,Seghill,Seaton Deleval,High Pit/Village Road,Manor Walks, possibly interwork with either the 43,52 or 53
51,slight reshuffle,from Holystone serves Northumberland Park,then West Allotment,then continues service as is currently
53,from North Shields extends (hourly) to Whitley Bay via Preston Road North,Preston Grange Morrisons,Preston Grange,Malvern Road,Devon Road,N.T.G.H,Whitley Bay Ice Rink,Whitley Bay, also to additionally serve Northumberland Park
54,to additionally serve Northumberland Park
I'm from Delaval and tbh don't really see the point in the 42, I'd never use it tbh and can't imagine many others would either. We have the 19/57/57A to Cramlington, 57A to Annitsford and never really had the need to go to Gosforth or the Regent Centre and the Bus/Metro route wouldn't be much longer.
If your interested for here the places that people want are the most in order of most moaned about: (All the villages are Seaton Delaval, Holywell, Seghill and New Hartley)
All The Villages -> North Tyneside Hospital
Holywell -> Newcastle
Seghill -> Northumbria Hospital
New Hartley -> Whitley / North Shields
Seghill -> Metro (not going backwards 15 minutes - (Not X7 diverted))
All The Villages -> Killingworth (But not the X7 diverted)
For your 53 extension I'd extend the 57A instead and you've fixed the biggest moan around here (or do the old 810/811 route and go up to Hospital roundabout and turn back then continue to Morrisons). Arriva used to serve Northumberland Park but then pulled them all pretty much at the same time and it's not far to walk from Sainsburys where the 53 and 54 serve, guessing that's the reason why it's not a very good designed bus stop really and would be better if the bridge was opened up but there's plans to pedestrianise it and remove the 2 concrete walls in the future with the B&T Railway.