(14 Oct 2020, 8:07 am)Dan wrote 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.

Having stood on Sandyford Road for an hour one afternoon last week, the 51/51A/306/308/309/310/311 are hardly carrying any passengers in or out of Newcastle at what should be their busiest time - interestingly, Arriva were almost always in front of Go North East, although the 308 & 306 turned up together heading into Newcastle at one point.