Eldon Square is bad enough for layover - even worse now that the taxis are back camping on Prudhoe Place. Haymarket doesn't have room for layover and even if you extended the bus station back into the road, you'd still find it quickly clogged either by dumped buses or the road outside would be heavily congested making it difficult to access from the Eldon Square direction when people inevitably cross into the box junction. Maybe reverse the direction of the bus station to make looping round easier?

If you chop the running time or layover period at the Newcastle end, you're just going to damage customer confidence in terms of punctuality when the bus station is at a standstill because it only takes 1 or 2 late running buses to cause problems.

Unfortunately, it's catch 22 and it stems back to the council's lack of foresight for the bus users of the city. What used to be 4 bus stations in the city is now two plus a crowded and exposed smattering of stops on Market Street.

If the council is taking public transport seriously, I can't help but wonder if they gave consideration to building a bus station on the site of the Stack (old Odeon) where the majority of Market Street services could terminate. Wouldn't exactly be the biggest station, but it would certainly ease congestion in the other locations while still providing a service along the far end of Market Street.

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