(12 Feb 2024, 9:40 pm)mb134 wrote Looking at that map, a bus gate into the estate in the same section as Miller and Carter would have helped massively too with the advantage of giving the residents a closer bus stop too.
In terms of South Gosforth, is running it via Gosforth High Street and down like the 54/354 an option?
It's just as bad by Church Road and Station Road, used to horrific that way at peak times.
(12 Feb 2024, 9:44 pm)DaveFromUpNorth wrote Traffic past the council offices is not as bad as people think or feel the 342 for example the max it waits stuck in traffic is 4mins
However diverting the buses off towards great lime road but then take a left turn and round the loop over the railway crossing (serving the community where the nexus secured bus used to operate) people can still walk to connect to miller and Carter estates etc ) over the crossing then onto the road to burradon leave the X9 and X10 to serve miller and Carter roads
Alternatively change the X7 route completely
As normal from Newcastle to Quaroum then Great lime Road left and around the loop past the station pub and over the railway crossing into Killing worth (northern loop) so passengers for Burradon can get off and walk under the underpass to the industrial estate ) the bus continues to killingworth Bus Station then back out and right under the A19 and on the back road to Seghill and continue on its route it would also create new links from Killingworth to Seghill
Only the X8, goes that way btw, sounds a bit long winded that for the X7 and we don't approve detours as Arriva learnt last time. There's very very vocal councillors around here who would kick up a fuss. Killingworth Way towards Killingworth is really going down the pan aswell lately, annoyingly.
I don't know the solution though tbh, really need a few buses at peak times that run non-stop from Newcastle to Seghill and give it freedom to go multiple ways, I'd assume the Coast Road and A19 would be quickest but with the bus lanes, Gosforth High Street might just pip it but obviously the question is where do the buses come from.