(04 Apr 2016, 9:23 pm)South Tyne Lad wrote Bus Services from Newcastle Airport could be like :
Arriva X17 could extend to Ashington if it used Pulsars.
Add that to diverting the X77/78/79 into the Airport and if they can the 74 too and then you have a better connected Airport.
Though diverting the above might need funding from the Airport.
Well, the 74 runs through Westerrhope and Callerton not Newcastle Airport and is VERY infrequent and unreliable.
Pulsars could not cope on some of the roads in places north of Ponteland such as Kirkley, Ogle, Whalton and Mitford and to be more popular instead of diverting to Bolam it could go through Tranwell.
MPDs could be freed up by the 57/57A receiving Streetlites to comply more with the tender saying the service needs a capacity of 36+.
A P.V.R of three MPDs and three Pulsars is necessary, 1 free Ashington MPDs could transfer to Jesmond for service 55 with the other being a MAX spare. 1 pulsar from the 55 is then freed and some cascades from Belmont with the 46 being MAXED could find other pulsars