(05 Sep 2024, 10:17 pm)Storx wrote Just been watching that video with Geoff Marshall and seen Leicester is having a massive success with a free bus and just got me thinking that would be a great idea in Newcastle to connect all the major destination points, especially the fact we have massive hills and came up with the below:
It's an ideal route to serve the main points in the city imo.
Central Station -> Pilgrim Street -> Haymarket / Eldon Square > Central Station -> Forth Banks -> Quayside -> Ouseburn -> Hoults Yard - St Peter's
It's arguably all the main destination points in the city and should be free using BSIP money. It would massively benefit other services if you could get a bus to Haymarket and have a quick little hopper to get down to Central or the Quayside.
More importantly is the other way with people stopping at somewhere like the quayside and having a frequent well advertised free bus to get into the city. As a tourist it would be a massive game changer imo especially the fact the area behind Central Station and the Travelodge, Innsside and Copthorpe are completely unserved by public transport currently.
As part of this other changes:
Q3: Withdrawn completely
18: Extended to Wallsend
49/X46: Amended to serve the Great Park in some form of sensible way
Quite a refreshing idea to be honest!