(09 Jan 2022, 12:34 pm)OrangeArrow49 wrote I would hope so, and it's disappointing the posters aren't up anymore. GNE drivers are quite frustrating in my experience, they don't make things easy when they are in the wrong.
Yes, I agree 100% it's easier sitting on 1 bus, however I lost my job because of the 7, nearly every Friday it arrived late at the Metrocentre, and I was therefore late for work. Direct buses to Byker wait in town making it quicker to change buses to continue on to Shields Road, so really direct services don't work. Even in the other direction, changing drivers in Slatyford is frustrating.
Honestly it's a shame we can't scrap the lot and start again. Our bus network is a mess. Good thing is now I walk more and I'm less anxious, stressed and frustrated and if GNE was the dominant operator in my area I'd be employed. Stagecoach makes leisure, employment, volunteering and visiting people impossible. Arriva running the 62/63 would create a nice Arriva network in Killingworth and provide a bus to Byker (42/42A/52/53/54/62/63). BSIP should make operators irrelevant, but for a better service they should have connected networks as if Stagecoach is late (as usual) you miss the next bus from Arriva/GNE (I had exactly this issue when briefly attending sixth form in Wallsend).
orange arrow - am i right in thinking after reading your posts that you got the bus from the west end of newcastle to metro centre (7) then got the bus from there to newcastle then the bus over to byker where you lived? Or have I missed something?