Hmm. The 50 and 14 serve the arnison centre. The loop is pretty frequent to Team Valley, which is on the way to nowhere.

I must admit I missed the 50 at Arnison. The Loop isn't helpful for people who live at places like Chester-Le-Street, Stanley, Consett and it's the closest place to get the big shops such as Hobbycraft and the like.

@streetdeckfan
It was more on the point that the hubs now are just outdated and aren't where people really want to go anymore.

Personally I'd rather see a totally different network to the way they work currently in the sense you have a selection of hubs with express buses running inbetween then with local buses connecting to the hubs so you can get around quickly and stop having places where there's too many bus routes congesting roads. Tyne Bridge / Coast Road for example.

To give an example in part of SE N'land / N. Tyneside. You'd have main hubs at Newcastle, Silverlink, Cramlington and Killingworth. For these you'd have all the local bus routes connecting to them for example buses from Silverlink to N Shields, Whitley, Cullercoats, Cobalt etc. Then from the hub have a dedicated express bus running direct to Newcastle where there's money spent on the route bus lanes, priority routes etc. Almost as a metro but buses instead. It's almost a bus and ride, with park and rides put next to some of them. All trying to promote people to actually use cars plus it's good for the environment not having 4 bus routes following each other down the Coast Road. The same would be at Cramlington (Blyth Expresses + Cramlington), Killingworth (X7/X8, 54 + Killingworth) both with express bus routes to town.

It would work well with the X21 aswell with it being non-stop Newcastle -> Gateshead -> Low Fell -> Angel (P+R) -> Chester-Le-Street -> Durham Hospital -> Durham -> Spennymoor -> Bishop Auckland with all the local buses connecting to it at the hubs above. It makes it more viable for more people whereas it's only really useful if you live near by it as it no doubt wont connect with anything.