(04 Feb 2023, 10:14 am)Storx wrote The 311 tbh would solve Wiltshire Drive and give them a better service aswell.

If there wasn't a wholesale change on the Coast Road.......another option could be:

- 309 - Same as now every 20 mins

- 310 - Same as now via Hadrian Park every 20 mins

- 311 - Holystone - Benton ASDA - Station Road North - Wiltshire Drive - then Coast Road as now to Newcastle every 20 mins

Again, the issue is that the 311 would be a loss maker in that form if the Coast Road was left unchanged. 

A cleaner 5 minute headway and the 306/308/309/310 running every 20 mins each would allow all services to stand on their own two feet.......

- 306 would carry about the same if not slightly more with a more even headway along with the 308 due to it omitting Battle Hill Drive.

- 308 would be burdened less because of the above.

- 309 would actually compliment rather than compete against the 308, being the main money maker through Battle Hill Drive and High Farm due to it serving Station Road and also with the 13/7 split with the 310.

- 310 would pretty much the the same as now passenger wise.