(08 May 2024, 2:08 pm)deanmachine wrote See I disagree that integration is bad, I like the idea of a London type system with a Bus ticket for a zone or a Bus + Metro ticket. It's how I've always used it in southern South Shields, I'd get the X34 to Newcastle, or if I've just missed an X34, I'll get the bus to the Interchange and get a metro from there. I've done that all my life, ever since I was a kid, and I'm sure I wouldn't be the only one doing that. I think you'd be surprised how the system is actually used already.

The 4 at Heworth and the buses towards the Regent Centre are quiet well used aswell to be fair. 

Personally I'd much rather have a 15 minute service to a nearest Metro stop pretty direct rather than an 30 minute or hourly bus service going round every nook and cranny. 

I do the same up here most the time changing at Northumberland Park or West Monkseaton rather than using the X7 as half the time I don't want to be anywhere near Haymarket. 

Just a shame the 57/57A runs on its own timetable lately including quite often early in an evening which is less than ideal when you've got a 8 minute interchange.