(09 May 2023, 9:12 pm)Shrek wrote Pensioners and people with limited mobility who live in the middle of Meadway might disagree with you there. I've walked it several times, nice and easy for me, but for many people it would be too far and leave them stuck at home or requiring a car or taxi.
Imagine they'll redirect the 335 or something instead though personally. Not ideal if they want to go to Newcastle of course but as seen with what was planned with the W2 they don't care about that.
I probably shouldn't say this but in the last tenders there was a tender for a K1: Backworth to Killingworth, K2: Meadway to Killingworth and K3: West Moor to Killingworth (numbers might be the wrong way round), all hourly using 1 bus, which would tick the boxes for the estates which they didn't go ahead with and wasn't in any consultations either. It didn't make sense at the time but kind of does now.
Hopefully it's not the route they go but it would solve the 54 and 55 if they're going for the cheapest option. The rest of it has alternative services especially now the 19 goes up to part of Backworth aswell. Not ideal but they're skint.