(29 Oct 2023, 8:13 am)citaro5284 wrote I see a local Councillor in Holywell thinks Metro is too slow and is advising residents not to use it!!
Tyne and Wear Metro bosses dismiss call to run 'express' services to popular destinations
https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/nor...s-27999086
It's a bit of an odd thing to come out with, but it doesn't surprise me. Most Councillors I've worked with, they wouldn't know public transport if it hit them in the face.
Even if they had the stock to deliver it, without impacting frequency elsewhere, I don't think there's any passing places on the network? Unless they're going to get into the complications of bi-directional running.
(29 Oct 2023, 1:43 pm)mb134 wrote Not strictly Metro based, but I find the following bit quite funny: "The return of passenger trains to the reopened Northumberland Line next year will see communities in South East Northumberland given a new link to the Metro network, as trains will stop at an interchange at Northumberland Park station.".
Apart from fact that the site of every single station is currently served by a bus service which already links to the Metro network...
I don't know the area well enough to comment, but in Washington, where a similar link is highly sought-after, the issue isn't so much the lack of a bus link; it's the time it takes.
35 minutes from my closest stop to Heworth, followed by an 8 minute run on the Metro to town. If you time it right, it's quicker to use the X1 when the traffic is on your side. Metro directly from Washington to town would be 15 minutes tops.
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