(18 May 2023, 9:44 am)Storx wrote The thing is they wouldn't be full though as they wouldn't go any further than Great Park where you'd have a proper interchange. That would be a tram/metro btw through Gosforth. One core bus route would never work.
It happens pretty much everywhere, even in London.
Just to pick Ealing Broadway, https://content.tfl.gov.uk/bus-route-map...290423.pdf
You can see it working there with all the 'E' services which are the 'Ealing Broadway' Local Services. Most of them are every 10 minutes or so aswell using Double Deckers and Ealing Broadway is one of hell bloody busy Tube Station.
It'll freak people out up here as they're not used to it but long term it's much much better than now. Not to mention you'd actually have less vehicles / drivers so less cancellations and since they stay away from the traffic less delays.
Washington Galleries to Newcastle via Concord and Heworth is the one which should be built though and would work imo, it pretty much does it anyway bar it connects to the X1 instead which is undesirable. Then you can start having debates about scrapping the likes of the 25 and having a more frequent bus to Washington Galleries from Barley Mow etc and connecting to the new tram/train. I'd prefer that personally if I lived there as an hourly bus service is useless.
TBH i dont disagee. But in reality where is the money going to come from and how are you going to get all the operators to agree to reducing they " money making" services and start runing shuttle buses?
And also you've got this up to so extenet already with the metro. Regent centre was mentioned.... why dont arriva cutail buses there and punter use the merto. same as X10 to town, stops at heworth turn it there. 21 turn it at Gateshead. Buses from winlation/ ryton, tunr them at blaydon and use the train to central.