(05 Jan 2020, 3:54 pm)big mac wrote All that would probably happen there is overcrowding on the 56 as people waiting on Old Durham Road would just let the 57 go past to avoid having to change at Gateshead to go to Newcastle.
Over-crowding on the 56, cos the demand between the QE and Newcastle on the 57 is too much? Really?
Even if it was (which I doubt is the case), there's the X1 and even the 25 and 28 to pick up any overspill from the overcrowded 56.
It's not as if the combined 13/14 buses ph from the QE - Newcastle, isn't enough to pick up those percentage of punters letting a 57 go past, cos they want to go to Newcastle.