(10 Jan 2023, 1:32 pm)Ambassador wrote I'm never sure why there's a clamour on here to reinvent the Coast Road routes.

They've been largely untouched throughout the chaos which suggests they make money and demand is there - so why is there almost a constant clamour to re-route or jig them (which is ironically what many of us criticise the life out of GNE for doing to the rest of its network)

I don't want to derail this thread about them again but I'd be surprised if they do make money especially the 311. I have a feeling it's more of a two companies being stubborn and refusing to make the move in case they shoot their self in the foot and give the other one a monopoly. They are not busy buses outside of the peaks and even Dan has mentioned numerous times about the overbusing along there.

The fact that they've ditched pretty much everything else in North Tyneside and both companies are making a loss probably suggest their not the money makers people think they are otherwise they could be used to top up the likes of the 17, 42, 51, 54 etc just to name a few which have suffered lately.

On the other hand without them they might aswell close shop in the area because of the Stagecoach / Metro covering most other areas.