(02 May 2018, 9:00 pm)Malarkey wrote Every 12 Minutes like the 56, can't see 2 Minutes extra on the timetable and one bus less an hour making much difference with the 4 to be honest.
Easily lose that 2 Minutes with those who do a sprint off the Metro wanting to get on as the driver tries to pull away and the ongoing road works at Heworth.
It appears that there's still a ten min headway on some of the top of the hour services from Houghton.
Enough to still warrant the 'up to 10 min' line? Not sure.
Disappointing passengers aren't told that these time table changes to improve frequency are actually decreases in frequency. However slight they may be.
I agree that the changes won't make much difference.
Too little, too late with regard to Heworth.
The worst of the work appears to have been and gone.
However, despite not being a huge fan of bus lanes, an example last night actually surprised me.
I was sitting on the A184, approaching Heworth when an X24A passed me. It whizzed off in to the distance.
Didn't think anything more of it, until I got on to the approach to the Tyne Bridge at Gateshead. The same bus was emerging off the High Street.
There wasn't much traffic on the bypass, but that bus lane allowed that bus to get beyond the traffic and along Sunderland Road and through Gateshead in the same time it took me to clear the Felling Bypass and get underneath the flyover.