(30 Sep 2021, 10:46 am)Rob44 wrote The fun police works over at the RVI in Newcastle ( thanks for clapping btw )  With me starting work later in the day I was giving her a lift during covid lockdown when the road were almost deserted. Now we are getting back to normal i drop her off at gateshead metro and she either gets the metro or the bus over to town. She did this before they changed Askew road and closed hill street and says now the buses get her to toon much quicker than they did so there one person who thinks the changes are a good thing. As a car driver you would expect me to disagree but I also don't think its as bad as all the " karens" on FB are making out. when it was busy over the last 2 weekend it would have just been as bad as the olden days as it was the amount of traffic trying to get across the tyne bridge. I was on the bus when the queues were forming and got to toon no bother.

I'm in two minds about the new layout, I personally prefer the actual layout, to me it's much more logical than it used to be (although I never really understood the anger at the previous layout either).

We had to go into Newcastle a couple weeks back, and I think it took us about 40 minutes to get along Gateshead Highway to the Tyne Bridge on the upper deck. The main issue seemed to be people coming up the sliproad and forcing their way up, so we were sat like lemons in the left lane whilst the right lane was moving. Once we got past it just flowed like normal.