(13 Oct 2015, 8:40 pm)Dan wrote There is a fine balance between providing a fast journey time and actually picking passengers up..!
If very few passengers get on/off at Hobson, it's pointless running a service through there, when running a service nearby could benefit other passengers instead, where there is greater demand.
What is running non-stop between Metrocentre and Newcastle on Monday-Saturday daytimes going to do then?
I may have missed a crucial part, but i am going to take a strong guess that it is to increase journey times (and there are already dozens of buses going between Metrocentre and Newcastle).
If that is the reason then the scenario is not much different to the Burnopfield/Hobson one. Runnng a bus to the Metrocentre through Hobson to provide quicker journey times because Burnopfield already has 2 buses to Newcastle and 1 to Metrocentre (which they have to cope with now - seem to manage fine to me). People not getting on the bus means that the bus will run straight through making the journey even faster than it would be if it was to stop. If going through a place without picking anybody up didn't have any benefits, then I could accept why the bus is being withdrawn from there.