(03 Sep 2024, 2:57 pm)Aaron21 wrote I see the wonderful great park people ain't happy with gne changes or in fact anyone. This Q3X is the most pointless service in existence. The nexus timetable details it being 4 minutes quicker than the Q3 half the time. The fact it's just via Great North Road is pathetic
Go North East should have listened to Great Park people. They wanted a quicker service to town. Which I remind you was was a consultation back in November last year and the changes didn't come into play till March. The nexus website detailed the Q3 would be moved out of Osborne Road yet here we are in the September changes and look what happened. Q3 cut from Great Park & still serving Osborne Road. So what do they do. Yea let's make a whole.new service. Make it peak times only and confuse the daylight out of the passengers.
Yesterday many people on the Q3X (the about 4 of them) wondering why it doesn't serve Osborne Road. The Q3X is a waste of a service and has no reason to exist. The dest even stats "fast via Great North Road " no it ain't since it stops everywhere so no fast. What makes the X part
The Great Park got a quicker bus service to Newcastle. A small minority decided that it wasn't the one they wanted though.
The Q3 shouldn't exist, at all, North of Newcastle in it's current form. The Q3 also shouldn't exist East of St Peter's either and that should be an extended 18. It's absolutely ridiculous the tax payer is subsidising 5 buses an hour between St Peter's and Titan Road currently.
North of Newcastle, it should be 2 services, one doing the X46 route and the other doing the 49 route both half hourly, combining every 15 minutes working with the 43/44/45 to give a 5 minute bus service between North Gosforth and Newcastle.
It's a complete mess and shows deregulation at it's worst.