(24 Feb 2024, 10:17 am)Storx wrote https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/nor...n-28692629

Good to see more good use of this money by upgrading traffic lights along Barrack Road and Scotswood Road where there's massive delays to buses every day, hang on... It's very strange that the traffic lights along both these roads are conveniently old though...

Utter joke. Another £6.5m spent on everything but buses. I'm still waiting for one bus infrastructure upgrade, literally anywhere, which isn't a pointless bus station.

There's not much point, because when they build bus infrastructure they never give buses any more priority. Gateshead High Street, a new trafflic light for me to wait at, Gateshead Askew Road, another traffic light for me to wait at, Sunderland Southwick Road, a traffic light for me to wait at that doesn't even change after 8pm, Sunderland Bedford Street/John Street, a bunch of traffic lights just slowing buses down with no priority for them. 

I could probably go on, but the planners have seemingly no idea where the problems are, and us bus drivers have never been asked where we think the bottlenecks are.