(04 Sep 2023, 11:23 am)Adrian wrote Which unpleasant areas? Even when the Bridges is shut, it's more or less a straight line through Green Terrace/Low Row, if you leave via the other end of the Interchange. 

I used to drink in Sunderland most weekends for years, and like most folk there, we'd walk back and forth between bars most of the night around the City Centre. I understand some can't, due to mobility issues, but it's as if we're making out that the vast majority of the population are incapable of walking 500/600 yards.

56 does serve the bus station, but I agree the E1/E2/E6 should revert to doing so, being City terminating services. 

I don't think Leeds is much different to Newcastle or Sunderland, in terms of what serves the bus station and what doesn't. You can see from their own guide that the bus station is extremely well served: https://www.wymetro.com/media/9699/leeds_wtcyb.pdf

Lot's of drunks etc, people going to see a show with kids etc. Not exactly the areas you want to go through.

If I'm right, Leeds pretty much works like this in terms of corridors. I actually really like it works well as the vast majority of areas have a direct link to the train station to interchange.



I don't know how feasable it would be but I'd always love to swap Haymarket and the Gateshead services around so all the Gateshead services serve Haymarket and Eldon Square and the Great North services heading down John Dobson Street and head down to Central like so:



Would give much much better connections for everyone as people from Gosforth, Cramlington, Morpeth would have a direct link to Newcastle Central and also stop the likes of the 56 clogging up around Market Street and remove buses from Market Street itself which is a horrid place currently, for the Stagecoach services moved from Blackett Street.

If I'm right it means that everyone would have a connection to every bus somewhere in Newcastle aswell.