(06 Jan 2022, 2:41 pm)DaveFromUpNorth wrote Here is an idea ?For a while now, I've shared links that show traffic jams and tailbacks across T&W.
Washington Galleries-Regent Centre
Service Number ... X123
Literately a limited stop to make it an Express. (Stop at locations only)
Washington Galleries
Concord Bus Station
Amazon Bus Station Follingsby
Jarrow Bus Station (for Metro link)
(Through tunnel)
Wallsend Bus Station (for Metro Link)
(Express )
Four Lane Ends Metro interchange - Park and Ride (possibly or direct to Freeman)
Freeman Hospital
South Gosforth Metro Station
Regent Centre Metro Station
Benefits is
Link to Amazon for North of Tyne
Direct link from Jarrow Metro to Wallsend Metro
Washington has a link to Freeman Hospital
Creating quicker links between Metro stations avoiding Newcastle City Centre
Jarrow has a direct link to Freeman Hospital
Serving Hospital and Amazon workers but improves reliability if Metro are off passengers visiting Hospital has a quick link
Wallsend to Amazon in less than 30mins perhaps?
Inevitably, those links are for areas that have poor public transport links or connections. They've been like that for years. https://twitter.com/NELiveTraffic/status...dMhIoTMt3A&s=19
If the data shows that the flow you suggest is high and the demand high, then it seems like a good idea to me!
Got to be better than maintaining the status quo and insisting we sit for ages on a bus, get off, stand, get on another bus (possibly repeating again) just to get somewhere.
Then the same at the end of the day.
That's why people make the switch to cars imo.