(14 Oct 2020, 7:02 am)Storx wrote The only evidence of any issues along the Coast Road was someone from GNE saying that's there's too many buses from their view. You have to remember however that the GNE have other services which are a bigger problem than Arriva's, the 22X in particular which will take anyone from the West side of Newcastle to Cobalt as it's cheaper and quicker so you've lost a large flow towards Cobalt from Newcastle. Not to mention the 22 and 1 taking passengers away from other areas all wanting to travel to Cobalt but they're more of an issue for the 40, 41 and 19 as much as the 309.

Either way we've had this discussion before and neither of have information on the profit of the 306/308 so we don't have the facts to really say how frequent it needs to be but you can't make claims without evidence in the sense that it can only survive by being downsized.

Pre-COVID, you could stand on the Coast Road corridor and observe empty buses all through the day.

The fact of the matter is that during (and post) COVID, this situation will be a lot worse, so you'd be mad not to expect some sort of reduction in the level of service on this corridor. If a bus is empty, how is it sustainable to run? One doesn't need access to passenger data to be able to say anecdotally that a lot of the buses on this corridor are empty.