(22 Oct 2024, 10:50 am)Storx / wrote I'm not sure it's really needed. People doing Middlesbrough to Newcastle should really be using the train imo. 

So the improvements should be there instead. 

A short X10 from Peterlee to Newcastle wouldn't be the worst idea though using 2 extra buses. It's the sort of place where BSIP should've been used, not propping stuff up like the 21.

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The Q3 shouldn't exist at all from St Peters to Wallsend imo. The 18 should be doing that instead.

My tax shouldn't be funding 5 buses an hour along there it's just totally stupid.

You could then fund the full 18 route on an evening and Sundays with a PVR 2 instead of the short service which exists currently.

Yeah I do understand this opinion as the 18 is in desperate need of upgrading and awful as well as the Q3.I just raised the opinion because I take the q3 from regent centre and on some days I can’t take the bvus because it terminates at st peters
but I totally agree there does need to be something done about the 18.And also between St Peter’s and wallsend there isn’t actually very many people (excluding me),only 3 or 4 people on weekdays.