(23 Nov 2021, 5:45 pm)deanmachine wrote The night bus network is very interesting (to me at least anyways, already being on the Deptford night rota). I do think having the same as day time routes helps a lot, and think this could help the 56 get even stronger with more links for Nissan. A few regulars already go to Newcastle and I have a feeling the have a bit of a walk home after they get off in Market Street. I'm sure other shift workers will be equally as happy, but I think there could be a few more links elsewhere in the network, an all night number 4 as well as the 20. I'm glad the night network seems to cover the whole Metro network during the night too.

Another point, a lot of these "superbus green routes" are currently at every 12 minutes or 15 minutes, I wonder if this means more investment in putting them back to every 10 minutes, as there's not many 10 minute services anymore. Take the 20 for example, there's been 4 streetlites taken out of the PVR since they were first introduced back in 2016, all of which would probably need to be put back in to make it a reliable 10 minute service again.

Yeah agreed mind the arguably busiest part of the Metro outside the core isn't covered at all which is a bit of a surprise from Jesmond -> Whitley Bay excluding FLE without any services to Team Valley, Cobalt or Quorum which you'd think there would be some demand. Not sure what you could do though without doing a TFL type night bus which only exists in the evening. It would arguably be better for the 22 aswell which is a bit confusing and out of area.

Btw on Page 99 next to the graph it says it needs an extra 28 vehicles on the road to cover it. Not sure what's going on between North Shields and Whitley Bay which can't really be done without upping the 306 all the way through but then the rest of the Coast Road is just missing including Cobalt.

The every 5 minutes between Gateshead and Team Valley is interesting aswell assuming some new route there as it's nowhere near that atm.

(23 Nov 2021, 5:49 pm)Dan wrote It’s probably more about corridors than individual routes - the 20/55/X20 for example offer a 7-8 min frequency between East Herrington and Sunderland.

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The section from South Shields -> Sunderland is every 10 minutes aswell according to it.