RE: Stagecoach North East: Service Suggestions
(12 Nov 2023, 4:07 pm)Storx wrote They're all tiny hamlets though, it's an awkward area to serve because there's not much in the area. The 685 is technically 3 BPH between Throckley and Newcastle, if you count the X82 aswell which does the same route pretty much.
I'm not suggesting that Stagecoach should run it but a good service South of the Tyne would be
Prudhoe -> Crawcrook -> Ryton -> Blaydon -> NON STOP -> Newcastle and give those communities a quicker route skipping out the Metro Centre like the 604 used to do before GNE scrapped it.
Something like - https://www.google.com/maps/dir/54.97041...?entry=ttu
Then you could potentially scrap the 10B and have the 10 every 30 minutes aka 602 and 10A every 30 minutes, 15 minutes combined.
Would actually be a good little route if an independent popped up (maybe a re-born NORTHUMBRIA).
(12 Nov 2023, 4:26 pm)Storx wrote Other than the Coast Road, you've pretty much just bullied GNE out of North Tyneside as there's only the 307/309 left with any purpose.
Can probably guess where I'd be going if I was Arriva and had drivers and buses spare aswell.
And maybe that will happen naturally if ZEBRA funding is granted for the Coast Road corridor. Highly doubt GNE will go to the expense of fitting EV charging facilities at Percy Main depot not forgetting the covid & strike losses.
