(13 Jan 2023, 6:10 pm)L469 YVK wrote I don't see Newcastle - Benton ASDA section of the 51 staying. 310 (with 309 changed to run via High Farm) could easily serve Wiltshire Drive and the 22 could serve Hadrian Park every 20 minutes to replace the 311 (with the other every 20 mins to Cobalt as now).

Holystone to Whitley Bay could be picked up by another route, maybe an hourly extension to the 55?

Don't know how Benton rise could be covered or whether that small section would warrant a link to Newcastle? But......if an additional stop (see screenshot) was added onto Wiltshire Drive, it would only be 482m or 0.3miles walk to the entrance of Benton Rise.

I don't know why people on here have an obsession with the Stagecoach 22 going to Hadrian Park to replace the 311! - the journey time to Newcastle would be longer than the 311 (or diverted 310) so would put passengers off.

310 via Wiltshire Drive won't work for the same reason - passengers from Battle Hill will have a longer journey.