(22 Jul 2021, 5:29 pm)Malarkey wrote Although it is a stopping service I found the 308 reasonably quick from Whitley Bay to Newcastle yesterday afternoon but I do agree in having a more limited stopping service being in place and only serving major stops such as Silverlink, North Tyneside Hospital, Whitley Bay Town Centre/The Links & Seaton Sluice, You could in turn cut a journey which is currently 66 Minutes from Blyth to Newcastle down by potentially 15/20 Minutes as from looking at Google Maps it 37 minutes in a car.
Don't really see the point personally.
Blyth has the X7/X9/X10/X11/X30
Half of Seaton Sluice has the X7
Whitley / Monkseaton has the Metro
Once you take all of them away there's not that many people left, especially when there's a few who use them to travel to college or to Silverlink etc to warrant an express service along there.
Either way it should be an Arriva service anyway. One thing I do think could be changed is the fact there's currently 9 buses an hour between Whitley and Lynn Road yet streets 1/2 a mile away have nothing especially Marden, can't blame people like Ian for being genuinely annoyed as they're service is crap (55 mins believe it is) and it's too far to realistically walk to Cullercoats Metro / Foxhunters.