(10 Jun 2023, 12:04 am)L469 YVK wrote Or.....an option to fully merge the 51 into the Coast Road network and shake off the 'Micky Mouse' route image
- 305 (every 30 minutes / 60 minutes) - Basically same as 51, half hourly Newcastle - Holystone Park, hourly to Whitley Bay
- 306 (every 30 minutes) - Newcastle to Tynemouth, additionally serves Hadrian Park
- 307 (every 30 minutes) - via Cobalt instead of Hadrian Park
- 308 (every 30 minutes) - Newcastle to Whitley Bay only, additionally serves Battle Hill Drive and via Marden Estate rather than Hillheads
- 309 (every 30 minutes) - Same route as now
- X38 (every 20 minutes) - Blyth to Coast Road / Wallsend Dene (same as current 308) then non-stop to Civic Centre, St Mary's Place and Haymarket
* Every 6 minutes Newcastle - Station Road
* Frequent Newcastle - Battle Hill service
* Relatively even 4x buses per hour Newcastle - Billy Mill
* Relatively even 4x buses per hour Newcastle - High Farm
* New X38 will be popular with 306/308 intentionally slowed down to 'encourage' passengers to use X38
Do the majority of residents in those areas travel to and from Newcastle?
Do the existing buses on the corridor get so full, they need to have this sort of frequency?
Is there room for growth?
If you can answer yes to at least two of those questions, then you may have a point.
If you can't answer yes to more than one of those questions, then I declare the whole Coast Road discussion null and void and as a consequence, you need to spend the rest of your days doing bus engine impressions.