RE: Go North East Service Suggestions
(18 May 2014, 4:58 pm)DaveyBowyer wrote Here is my solution to your suggestion. Service X52 has been added therefore giving a bus up to every 15 minutes between Newbiggin and Newcastle. Service X52 will serve the same route as the X51 with the exception that between Spital Road and Ashington Town Centre, buses will serve North Seaton rather than Wansbeck Hospital. Evening and Sunday journeys run up to every 30 minutes between Newbiggin and Newcastle despite the initial higher cost on paper due to the fact that the PVR would work out the same as terminating the X52 in Ashington during evenings and Sundays. Therefore, it would be better to have them both operating their full routes during the evenings and on Sundays every 60 minutes giving a combined frequency of every 30 minutes. Passenger numbers would increase due to a viable, suitable, relatively fast and easy alternative to the car between Newbiggin, Ashington, Bedlington and Newcastle. Also, buses would truly combine together particularly from between Ashington and Newcastle as opposed to the X21 and X22. Bedlington would have a flat 30 minute frequency during the evenings and Sundays as opposed of having to wait up 35 minutes for a bus if passengers miss the X22.
Above is the timetable to this. PLEASE NOTE THAT IT'S NOT OFFICIAL AND DOESN'T REFLECT UPON GO NORTH EAST
It looks very well thought out
and if GNE did ever introduce it, I think it would be very popular especially to those in North Seaton who, if they miss the X20 have to either wait an hour for the next one or get a bus to Ashington then to Newcastle
