(05 Aug 2022, 8:45 am)xpm wrote Make Metrocentre --> Newcastle a shuttle service - hell make it free - doesn't really matter - the amount of curtailed/cancelled services and cost of delayed services coming in and out of Newcastle has always been ridiculous - terminating at the metrocentre and running an airport type shuttle service would increase reliability massively.  Ok you're always going to have some oldies that will grumble - but hey you can't please everyone.

Disagree with that strongly unless there's some form of segregated route into Newcastle as a tram or something that would never work. 

It's all good going into Newcastle but the opposite way is a different discussion. 

If your trying to connect to let's the say the 6 every 30 minutes, you'd need to allow alot of extra time to make the connection, not to mention if there's delays then you might still miss that connection turning what was an easy 30 minute commute that might be 10 minutes late once in awhile to a potentially hour plus journey if things go wrong. 

It works with the Metro as the Metro is rarely delayed, another bus just no.