(12 Jan 2023, 10:55 pm)BusLoverMum wrote I don't think many people in West Auckland are wanting to travel to Newcastle very often unless they have family links. The bigger issue is for people in villages wanting to get to work in a minimum wage job, not necessarily 9-5 weekdays and people in the same areas wanting a decent sized supermarket without spending over 10% of their food budget on bus fare.
West Auckland has a fantastic bus service to Newcastle imo, it really doesn't need one at all as there's very little connection between the two places. They should count their selves lucky they have one at all especially when most the Consett area villages have an hourly bus service and some nothing at all on evenings and Sunday's. Hourly bus services are a complete waste of time and I don't care what anyone says unless it's places like Rothbury which are in the sticks so it's unrealistic to expect more.