(03 Sep 2024, 4:16 pm)Storx wrote 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.
The Great Park Transport Advisory Board are effectively a Quango. From everything I've read, they've decided what to do. Be prepared for more of this sort of thing when anybody gets a whiff of power and control.