(02 Aug 2024, 8:22 pm)Storx wrote What new outer pool, you mean the one that's pretty much been delayed indefinitely?
There's plenty other corridors in the North East that deserve this investment, West Road, Byker High Street and god to sake mention it, the Coast Road but not a penny has been spent on any of them, all with the same pollution issues and also serious congestion on 3 of them. There's no need for every route in Gosforth getting money.
This BSIP money should be improving bus services in areas with a poor bus service, I'm sorry but a 10 minute service is not a poor service by any stretch of the imagination and a bus service being 7.5 or 10 minute won't change someone using it, they're near identical. This is literally the 56 again but on steroids. The 71/72/87 being a prime example which are horrible infrequent (hourly) on the extemes, this is unacceptable in an urban area. The 6/7 two other services, also hourly on it's unique sections, also completely unusable.
It's not a new thing Gosforth getting money spent on it either.
The quicker the North East gets some adults in to run the transport while the councillors go splashing tax payers money down the drain, the better. Credit where credit due to Northumberland as they're the only area which has spent their BSIP money on creating new links and improving services in areas which genuinely have a poor service.
Tyne and Wear doesn't have remote communities. Those that are further out, actually have a decent service. Chopwell has six buses an hour. Murton in North Tyneside has two buses an hour. Even somewhere like Clara Vale has one bus an hour.
Although. I think you have a point with the frequent services getting money. I'm happy to be corrected, but I don't know of anywhere else in the country using BSIP money to enhance similar services.