(28 Sep 2021, 10:37 am)Storx wrote 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.

Note I was talking about bus users on those three corridors. I didn’t claim general traffic was all heading to the city centre.

Newcastle City Council is rightly prioritising buses so that bus passengers within the City of Newcastle (& no doubt beyond too) can have a quicker more reliable journey into the city centre where they are either heading to alight or connect to onwards travel.

In the wider region hundreds of millions has been spent in recent years on the Silverlink junction, Testos junction, A1 Team Valley to Metrocentre and now A1 Metrocentre to Great Park and A1 Team Valley to Coal House(?).
I don’t see why spending a little on bus priorities on three key bus commuter corridors within the city isn’t being welcomed, especially here on a bus enthusiast forum.

To say there shouldn’t be bus services on the Coast Rd is rather odd. Communities in Sandyford, North Heaton, High Heaton, Cochrane Park, Station Rd, Battle Hill, Norham Rd, Billy Mill, Preston Village etc aren’t all within walking distance to Metro stations, and therefore need buses along the Coast Rd. The same applies to communities along the West Rd and Great North Rd corridors.