(15 Jun 2024, 2:12 pm)Storx wrote You'd be better splitting the services imo. No-one from Whickham wants to go to Stanley / Consett and the links already exist mostly with the 6 anyway.
Just send all the X30/X31/X70/X71 via Gateshead and have a short service to Whickham ran by single deckers instead doing all of Whickham.
Whether you want to curtail the 97 at Gateshead that's your choice, it's not exactly needed to cross the water anymore since the service is covered at most stops anyway.
Not unless you want to send the 97 to Wiltshire drive and Hadrian Park via Byker Walkergate Metro Wallsend and up to Wiltshire Drive and Hadrian Park