(12 Feb 2021, 9:41 am)ne14ne1 wrote ...so then Coaster is a pointless name if that’s the case.
As Omnicity said it's more about that it serves the Coast between Whitley and N. Shields and that's fine. I wouldn't promote it as the bus that goes there though ie with link as it'll end up with some rather angry customers when they board the 'coast link' service at the Metro Centre and realise it takes over an hour and a half to get to the Coast.
Then again I don't really see the point why it's all one route anyway as I can't imagine there's many customers travelling from Byker south of the water or Bensham east of Newcastle as it's too long and horseshoes the Western side of the route so it's just suspectible to delays for little customer benefit. The old route did make sense though.