(14 Apr 2022, 5:50 pm)omnicity4659 wrote So it does, hadn't had the chance to check the timetables yet.

Lancaster Park and Northgate estates suffer from their own developers' incompetence, Lancaster Park itself could've been a useful loop but it's been severed halfway. Similar happens again at Northgate, where The Meadows and St Andrews Gardens aren't linked together to create a loop from Geranium Drive to Fennel Way - it would've been perfect for bus services - and enough people to justify Newcastle through services to both too.

The whole Morpeth bus network needs a rethink, because the 2/35/X14/X15/X18 are barely tapping into any potential customers who have been left with these 41x routes.

Morpeth is one of those places that on paper DRT would really work well. You'll never get a local bus network to work as like you've said everything is so badly designed.

It would work quite well imo connecting at Morpeth Bus station so you can catch the Newcastle expresses, 35 or 2 to wherever you want to go. Hexham is similar where most the Tynedale Links town services are a bit pointless and arguably would be better with a DRT. It's better than 2 hourly token service either way.

Could even extend it out to some of the villages like Mitford and Hepscott which don't really have a service at all.