(31 Jan 2023, 6:30 am)L469 YVK wrote Best option would be for an hourly extension of the 55 to Whitley Bay via Holystone to Earsdon then the W2 route.Extending the 55 would bring back the 355 which would be a slower link to Newcastle than the 51.
The hourly 55 and 54 could then perhaps interwork with each other.......or the 54/55 interwork with the 57/57A.
As for Newcastle - Wiltshire Drive, that could easily be sorted if Nexus/GNE/Arriva/Stagecoach work together to produce a stable set of changes.
The huge East Benton Rise / Fallow Park development would have no direct bus to Newcastle.
The link from Wiltshire Drive would be lost, the previous 3 buses an hour to nothing in less than a year.