(16 Jun 2014, 5:29 pm)Kuyoyo wrote Dalton Park is somewhere most people would go to by car not public transport and that likely won't change with the extension. Simply because it's a nightmare to get to and a nightmare to get into and out of - a bit like Teesside Park which only has a half hourly bus service from Stockton (hourly from Hartburn and hourly from Norton and Billingham).
Most people have no choice but to go there by car - public transport doesn't go there from a number of towns and villages within the same or neighbouring postcode areas.
I would love to go there on public transport - but despite being in the DH4 postcode (not Fencehouses btw
), it would take 3 buses to get there. Once completed, with restaurants, a cinema and supermarket - demand is going to increase.
Just think of the target audience those sorts of places attract... Apart from families; kids, teenagers and pensioners - in other words, potential bus users.