(28 Sep 2021, 9:15 am)ne14ne1 wrote The majority of bus users living on those three main corridors are riding into the city centre for work or leisure, because it’s cheaper and easier than taking their car into town - or more likely because they don’t owner a car, (Newcastle has a higher percentage of non-car owners than other areas).

You’re never going to persuade all of people shown in the image linked below who are sat in their private metal boxes to switch to public transport. They are contributing to congestion and pollution and delaying public transport further.

https://twitter.com/nelivetraffic/status...75050?s=21

Car is no longer king in cities and it’s about time public transport was prioritised. If you don’t try to improve public transport & make it a more attractive option then you risk losing current patronage, when the aim is to increase it.

Massive assumption there considering the Coast Road is the main road to head North, South and West from the likes of Byker aswell. How do you know these people aren't travelling to Team Valley, The Airport or elsewhere in the North East.

You can have 1 million buses going to Newcastle every 30 seconds along the Coast Road it's no use when you can't get a bus to Team Valley without a 15 minute walk.

Considering there's a traffic jam over the Tyne Bridge every morning Southbound suggests that the traffic infact isn't going nowhere near Newcastle especially when the traffic is heading towards the Central Motorway and not Haymarket / St Mary's Place where the majority of City Centre traffic would head towards.

There's a perfectly fine Metro system from the majority of areas on the Coast with proper interworking there's no reason why they should be on a bus along the Coast Road in the first place.