(20 Aug 2021, 6:30 pm)Charles41 wrote Many people are using the Team Valley as a shortcut to avoid the roadworks on the Western Bypass. I use it myself for that reason.
Charles
But you aren't avoiding any roadworks by scooting down Kingsway...
(20 Aug 2021, 4:27 pm)streetdeckfan wrote Lack of public transport to Team Valley is definitely an issue, it's one of the (many) things that puts me off going.
Perhaps sending some southbound services such as the X21 through Team Valley would be handy, although then there'd be the issue of getting through the traffic!
I remember a few years ago, there was a big initiative set up by the GNE and TVTE bods. Encouraging the use of public transport and bycicles.
Even then, they still persisted with the 93/94.
The PR scheme didn't last.
Quite why the penny didn't drop and they started to realise that not everyone wants to change at Maingate or Gateshead (or Chowdene, the QE or Heworth), is anyones guess.
Blinkers perhaps?
I've used the 93/94 to/from workplaces when I've needed to be at the valley for meetings.
If I wasn't a gricer, I'd have given it up after 1 trip.
I just hope my journeys haven't distorted the figures and given someone the justification to keep things as they are.
'Frank, we've had one passenger change at that church on Bensham Bank, another one at the QE and one fella hung around Gateshead Interchange like a muppet for 35mins, waiting for a bus down the bank. He will have been late for work, but it justifies keeping services as they are!
Aye, when you're at it. Look at cancelling the 71. No fu£&er uses that apart from the FPF and those old biddies needing their pension, bread and milk'.