(15 Jul 2023, 7:26 pm)L469 YVK wrote I think a Q3 and 41/41A merger would be overkill.

The 22 although funded by Cobalt, doesn't justify a 10 minute service to Cobalt.

The point I'm trying to make as a taxpayer, is why is Nexus hellbent on relying on tendered services (hourly should I add), when better value for money could be obtained working in partnetship with operators such as GNE & Stagecoach?

I'll take the argument about previous GNE attempts to serve Wiltshire Drive, but the 'old' 307 was solely dependent on Wiltshire Drive as was the 57/58/311 for Hadrian Park. Re-routing the current 307 would be a totally different ball game altogether with the North Shields - High Farm section and Coast Road / Station Road to Newcastle Haymarket section supporting things.

The 41/41A is a commercial service. Send the 22 into Hadrian Park and the 41/41A is in trouble so GNE won't be approving that anytime soon. They're losing their turf to cover a road that people can use their services anyway for most of it.

Nexus and the bus companies are not friends hence why Nexus slag them off at every opportunity. Personally I could imagine certain Nexus individuals being intolerable to work with and pretty much all councillors are intolerable.