(05 Jan 2020, 12:47 pm)Rob44 wrote I really don't see the big deal about alighting at gateshead to catch another form of transport ( be it another bus or metro) GNE don't have any qualms about stopping a service at Gateshead and kicking the passengers off cause the bus is running late. In the last year i'd say this has happened to me several times and I wouldn't say i'm a regular bus traveller!
I have no issues changing at Gateshead if I wanted to travel to Newcastle, as long as I don't have to pay any extra to get there. If there was a shuttle bus that I could use my All Zone ticket on, then that's fine.
If this were to happen, I would say extend the X66 so it runs Eldon Square - Gateshead - Metrocentre - ASDA/IKEA - Metrocentre - Eldon Square, then again in reverse.
(05 Jan 2020, 1:00 pm)Michael wrote But then we'll only get moaning by people on here, that they have to change buses for Newcastle, but then the buses heading to Newcastle might be delayed due to the traffic, because the traffic won't go away by terminating buses at Gateshead!
They wanted to do that with the 56 years ago, miss out Gateshead interchange and a high number of passengers said no, so they didn't bother changing it.
Which is why I suggested having every other service go to Newcastle, that way people who want to travel to Newcastle can. To me, it's less about the traffic, and more about having pretty much empty buses going into Newcastle, the problem with traffic will never go away.