(18 May 2021, 2:35 pm)OrangeArrow49 wrote Could the X24/X34 be extended to Eldon Square instead of an obscure bus stop on Pilgrim Street?
Stagecoach are definitely creeping into North Tyneside more with the 1, 10/11 and 22 (12 and 40 has always served Wallsend I believe, and their used to be the 18). GNE might lose North Tyneside in the future if Stagecoach decide to run a service to Whitley Bay and North Shields.
Possibly a Quayside service and Newcastle to Cramlington service could be introduced my Stagecoach?
I'd say Pilgrim Street provides a more central point for passengers than terminating at Eldon Square or Haymarket would. You're about equal distance from everything in terms of shopping.
(18 May 2021, 3:53 pm)Rob44 wrote Stagecoach dont like paying the fees to use bus station - exactly why they don't stop in Gateshead metro and do at the back of Tesco
If I was Stagecoach, I wouldn't stop at Gateshead Metro either. It's only likely to be used by those doing the Metrocentre via the X66, and bare in mind Stagecoach run their own Metrocentre service from Newcastle.
If they were attracting Metrocentre customers, they'd be conceding that those customers go for Day Rovers instead, which means Stagecoach only get a small proportion of the fare. Whereas they get 100% of the commercial day ticket that can be used on X24/100.
Not great, but that is the world we live in, until we get something like EPs.