(07 May 2024, 9:56 pm)deanmachine wrote The problem is, Hills Street is closed, so we have to join Tyne Bridge traffic to use it down Bottle Bank past the Hilton. Used to be great on an X66 at peak times when you could avoid all traffic, now it's just easier to go down Askew Road.

I don't understand why they don't just open it to the public nowadays, it's so out the way and doesn't really serve anything to be useful as a rat run or for buses really like you said. It would still be much quicker to go via Central taking account that the Swing Bridge is slow as an understatement.

Same as the one linking Silverlink and Tyne Tunnel Trading Estate now that the A19 has been fixed at Silverlink.