(21 Sep 2021, 10:48 pm)Ambassador wrote Haymarket is bang in the middle. Direct access to Eldon Sq through M&S, Northumberland St and a few minutes cut through to Blackett St. 

The whole NewBridge, Pilgrim area is owned by the Reuben Bros, the dex is due to come down as part of the East Pilgrim St project, hence New Bridge St and Pilgrim St closing. 

New Bridge Hotel is being demolished to become a sky scraper complex. 

that whole area is on the up and developers sure as hell ain’t gonna pop a bus station in there. Newcastle Building Society sold Portland House for a huge profit last year, mid pandemic which shows you the value in the area. 

Newcastle doesn’t have enough land spare or the political will. The only sites that look like they will open up are Forth Banks area and the arena but if Marlborough Crescent was too far, these are even worse.

Forgot about the hotel plan for the Newbridge site mind it's a bit fantasy. It's not the Rueben brothers that though I don't believe, it's owned by someone else's name who's totally gone.

See I think a bus station at the other end of town is pointless and isn't going to fix anything. The Redheugh Bridge buses all go to Eldon Square and the Stagecoach services still need to get across town so it's not fixing the Market Street / Blackett Street problem and Stagecoach won't use it anyway as it's a massive diversion for the 62/63 etc.

Worsick is the problem bus station but like you said there's no political will to even attempt to do something never mind the space problem which mind has only been a problem til recently.