(28 Mar 2018, 7:18 pm)JM03 wrote 22 Newcastle - Dunston - Metrocentre - Lemington - West Denton park - Throckley - Black callerton - Newcastle airport - Hazelrigg - Killingworth
Operated on 3 new streetlites with USB, next stop announcement and luggage racks. Will receive 'flyer' branding. Makes new connections between Metrocentre, Throckley and to Newcastle airport.
Don't you think if there was a need to supply the airport - which is an international gateway - there would already be extensive connections to the airport, as seen in other international city airports?
I think the metro/taxis/car have a monopoly on trips to our airport and I think buses would just be carrying thin-air to and fro the airport. The only two buses I know of that go to or near the airport are solos.
131 - Solo, infrequent
42A - Solo, every 30 mins
74 (not even to the airport itself) - infrequent
Food for thought.
(26 Mar 2018, 1:49 pm)ifm001 wrote Yeah GNE advised it was to provide a link between Teams/Dunston and Gateshead.
in that case journeys towards Gateshead should be pick up only at stops in between, and journeys towards metro centre should be set down only.
there is enough services available to provide journeys to and from Metrocentre to the 4 stops inbetween.
This would cause chaos. Buses that go past stops should either stop consistently at stops or not at all - by that I mean either direction, the journey should be pretty much identical. It would be exceptionally hard to serve a public notice explaining the system to all concerned. Practicality over desire. I think the current system works well enough, it's doesn't ever take long to get one end to the other, even stopping every stop, you're only cutting off about 5 minutes out of your day.
(25 Mar 2018, 6:37 pm)S830OFT wrote 43: Newcastle - Teams - Metrocentre - Lemington - Throckley.
44: Gateshead - Teams - Metrocentre - Lemmington - Throckley.
Both Hourly.
64 - Withdrawn
X66 - Set to Every 15 mins and NON Stop to Metrocentre.
Throckley to have new routes going direct to Metrocentre.
Also new link to Gateshead.
Maybe the 64 could be digested into one of the 49 routes..
49D anyone?
