(13 Jan 2023, 10:57 am)Aaron21 wrote Received an email of nexus for the consultation. They said they cannot extend the 51 to Northumberland Park reason below

The 51 (which is operated privately by Arriva between Newcastle – Holystone) would continue to serve Holystone Park .It would not be possible to extend the 51 to/from Northumberland Park without adding an additional bus, or omitting another section of the route between Newcastle - Holystone.

I mean do they just not want arriva to put another bus in service or something. And the 51 does a bloody loop of the road it comes into Holystone anyway. So how would the 51 miss out Holystone if it has to leave Holystone the same way it came in to get to Whitley Bay and Northumberland Park is 5 minutes up the road from Holystone

Consider that the loop it does. Non of that made sense whatsoever saying they can't serve it due to possible missing out area

It makes perfect sense. Newcastle to Holystone Park is pretty much bang on 30 minutes, if they intend to keep an hourly frequency and keep it in the current interworking pattern then it works perfectly. As soon as you take it to Northumberland Park it adds around 10 minutes per trip, so it would either need to go standalone and you'd need 2 buses, or it would massively change what can be achieved with interworking and you probably can't save the bus that this initial cut would.