(30 Oct 2023, 9:54 am)MurdnunoC wrote There are probably similar examples across the networks of Stagecoach and Arriva too.
One that immediately springs to mind, which also touches upon your favourite criticism of bus companies not being more proactive in creating links between new housing developments and out-of-town shopping centres, is that there is no direct bus between Scotswood/Denton Burn/Slatyford and Kingston Park.
This link has existed in the past. When TWOC (Tyne and Wear Omnibus Company, for those who don't know) was encroaching upon the business of Busways, the TWOC duplication of the 1 was extended from Slatyford, up Binswood Avenie and Sunnyway into Blakelaw then onto Kingston Park. I'm pretty sure the Busways 1 was extended shortly afterwards. In later years, Scotswood had the 17 which continued towards Kingston Park.
To me, these are the links bus companies should be re-evaluating, rather than giving a token service to an new estate on the edge of town where residents are probably not purchasing properties on the strength of the local bus services.
It's a problem with the whole North East this and ironically it's a problem in London aswell.
There is a real problem with transport which goes around places. Everything is designed that everyone wants to go to Sunderland, Newcastle or Gateshead centre but if you actually want to commute around the outside it's near impossible without a detour.
For the hub and spoke map someone mentioned here you go, coloured routes being pretty much the only routes 'going around'. The red arrow corridors are near impossible to commute currently, and it's not as if there's no reason to be doing them as the red dots are arguably the major employment sites in Tyne and Wear.
Not ironic that arrows pretty much follow the corridor of the A1 and A19 aswell, the two busiest roads in the area.