(18 May 2022, 4:33 pm)DeltaMan wrote If you replace loads of infrequent services with one main bus route at a high frequency thorugh the middle of where people live, then that would normally mean you should attract more people within walking distance of the main road than you lose by not diverting off the main drags. Given how frequent the 21 remains between Chester and Newcastle, that would lend credence to the idea that removing routes such as the 777, 721 etc were, on balance, the right thing to do.
Aye I understand that but does that really happen though in theory when you've got the 25, 28, 29 and 51 bouncing all over it at numerous points which are all really struggling and now were at the case where one road has a really good service but Ouston, Kibblesworth, Portobello, Langley Park etc don't have a bus service at all now to Newcastle because of the 21 pretty much.
https://images.nctx.co.uk/2022-02/Nottin...b%2022.pdf - There's a few good examples there in Nottingham where it happens and it seems sensible to me with blocks of numbers and the core corridor in this case Durham Road having a good service then when they go further out they start to split up and serve everywhere. It means the profits coming from the 21 can top up the less profitable end bits rather than those services running all the way to Newcastle / Gateshead duplicating the 21 around the world attempting to create links which don't exist.
Compare that to GNE's network map and it looks like some kid has had the crayons out.