(28 Nov 2020, 9:02 pm)Adrian wrote I had never thought about that, but I agree that is the best option. 

There's a lot of marks who believe that Richard Holden will get them the Metro, but I just cannot see it being feasible. Even if they reduced the journey time to what you suggest earlier, I don't think that provides enough of an economic benefit over the bus link. 

GNE have been doing a lot of work in Consett lately in an attempt to get over. I know the express stuff was a force of hand because of the Newcastle clean air zone, but there's also been the work and promotion done around the local Venture network.

Indeed. 

The feasibility study is not going to amount to much and, if we can be serious for a moment, it's probably a huge waste of the millions of pounds that it will cost to carry out.