(07 Nov 2024, 6:34 pm)Storx wrote Shutting car parks and forcing people to use public transport is not the way to sort out the problems. It's the easiest way to completely kill Newcastle City Centre though.

Park Lane and Gateshead aren't too big either, they're the right size. Haymarket and Eldon Square are too small hence the congestion, overcrowding of stands etc. The rebuild is a complete waste of money but that's nothing new up here where we like wasting money on pointless things rather than fixing the real problems.

With my blue sky thinking hat on, I would like to see Eldon Square and Haymarket bus stations to be combined into a new large bus station, either with a multi story car park built on top of it, or a larger one provided as a replacement for Eldon Garden, while opening up Percy Street by demolishing the large mall bridge (perhaps replacing it with a smaller covered walkway). The traffic flows and resulting congestion around there do need to be addressed as well.