(24 Sep 2023, 5:31 pm)Busu284 wrote Why would they do this. U keep mentioning this and its getting annoying and boring. There no reason. Even if they were to do this it would be easier to send the 22 straight into Hadrian Park via thr route now. Just extended it there. It would make no sense to split thr route
Totally different motive to previous suggestions.
If GNE are cancelling 307 journeys at short notice such as the 23:00 ex Newcastle plus other outlined cancellations, Stagecoach could potentially win passengers if they were able to run a stable service that passengers know will turn up - albeit slightly longer than the 307 but not much different to the 57/58 journey times.
Splitting the route to run every 20 minutes to Cobalt & Silverlink OR every 20 minutes to Hadrian Park would make more sense rather than all journeys going via Hadrian Park. Although Sunday journeys to Silverlink would perhaps need to go via Hadrian Park.
Only question is how would the peak 22X journeys work although serving Hadrian Park every 20 minutes would drop the PVR by 1x